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T1 Virtual Realities and Chaos: The Fictions of Nicole Brossard, William Gibson, Don DeLillo, Michael Ondaatje and Others
A1 Jirgens, Karl E.
AB This article addresses the literary avant-garde in American Fictionand focuses on the uses of narrative disjunction, dialogism, and multistabilityin perception in the works of a handful of authors includingNicole Brossard, William Burroughs, William Gibson, Leonard Cohen,Kurt Vonnegut jr., Margaret Laurence, Don DeLillo and MichaelOndaatje. More specifically, this analysis considers narrative modelsthat re-define “fiction” both as form and genre with direct reference tothe inter-face of electronic culture and the creative process, or, techneand physis. A theory regarding Virtual Reality and the de-stabilizationof meaning is forwarded as are comments on theorists of media andculture including McLuhan, Ong, Negroponti, and De Kerckhove amongothers. The second half of this paper applies Fractal and Chaos theoryto the feminist fiction of the award-winning novelist, Nicole Brossard.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de La Laguna
SN e-2530-8335
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 05-ene-2025