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Beautiful chaos : chaos theory and metachaotics in recent American fiction
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ISBN: 0791447421 0791447413 9780791447413 9780791447420 9781789560060 1789560063 9781789560077 1789560071 9781789560084 178956008X 9781789560091 1789560098 9780791491737 9781789560107 0791491730 9780791491737 Year: 2000 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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Beautiful Chaos is the first book to examine contemporary American fiction through the lens of chaos theory. The book focuses on recent works of fiction by John Barth, Michael Crichton, Don DeLillo, Michael Dorris, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Carol Shields, and Robert Stone, all of whom incorporate aspects of chaos theory in one or more of their novels. They accomplish this through their disruption of conventional linear narrative forms and their use of strategic tropes of chaos and order, but also—and more significantly for an understanding of the interaction of science and fiction—through their self-conscious embrace of the current rhetoric of chaos theory.Since the publication of James Gleick's Chaos: Making a New Science in 1987, chaos theory has been taken up by a wide variety of literary critics and other scholars of the arts. While considering the relationship between chaos theory and recent American fiction, Beautiful Chaos details basic assumptions about orderly and dynamic systems and the various manifestations of chaos theory in literature, including mimesis, metaphor, model, and metachaotics. It also explains particular features of orderly and dynamic systems, including entropy, bifurcation and turbulence, noise and information, scaling and fractals, iteration, and strange attractors.

Teaching abroad
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ISBN: 1282709399 9786612709395 9888052802 9789888052806 9789622098541 9622098541 962209855X 9789622098558 Year: 2007 Publisher: Hong Kong London Hong Kong University Press Eurospan [distributor]

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The book discusses the internationalizing of education and what educators need to think about in moving abroad to teach and to do in creating an imaginative and successful cross-cultural classroom.


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Music and the road : essays on the interplay of music and the popular culture of the American road
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ISBN: 1501335294 1501335278 1501335286 Year: 2020 Publisher: London, England : London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, Bloomsbury Publishing,

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Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Paul Simon-these familiar figures have written road music for half a century and continue to remain highly-regarded artists. But there is so much more to say about road music. This book fills a glaring hole in scholarship about the road and music. In a collection of 13 essays, Music and the Road explores the origins of road music in the blues, country-western, and rock 'n' roll; the themes of adventure, freedom, mobility, camaraderie, and love, and much more; the contribution of music to popular road films such as Bonnie and Clyde, Easy Rider, Thelma and Louise, and On the Road; and the mystique and reality of touring as an important part of getting away from home, creating community among performers, and building audiences across the country from the '30s to the present. Book jacket.

Understanding John Barth
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ISBN: 0872496600 Year: 1990 Volume: *10 Publisher: Columbia, SC : University of South Carolina Press,

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Adaptation theory and criticism : postmodern literature and cinema in the USA / Gordon E. Slethaug.
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ISBN: 9781623560287 9781623564407 9781623562014 9781623560584 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York Bloomsbury

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Hit the road, Jack
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ISBN: 9780773587861 0773587861 9780773540750 077354075X 9780773540767 0773540768 Year: 2012 Publisher: Montreal McGill-Queen's University Press

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International education and the Chinese learner
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ISBN: 9882207057 9888028448 1283016974 9786613016973 9882206158 Year: 2010 Publisher: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press,

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This collection of essays aim at fostering discussion about the growth of international education and the Chinese learner between educators from schools and universities in Hong Kong and abroad. These essays are both theoretical and practical, coming outof the direct experiences of those who have been teaching Chinese learners in international contexts.


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Hit the road, Jack : essays on the culture of the American road
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ISBN: 9780773540767 0773540768 9780773540750 Year: 2012 Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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All travelers know the seductive power of the open road and its suggestions of possibility, escape, renewal, and reinvention. Hit the Road, Jack is an interdisciplinary exploration of the significance of the road as reality and metaphor. Engaging with varied cultural mediums such as literature, reality television, philosophy, and political rhetoric, this collection delves deeply into the symbolic implications of the road. Insightful and accessible essays draw upon both classic "road" texts and films, while investigating themes of individual and national freedom, independence and mobility, and destiny. Referencing postmodern theory, gender and queer studies, as well as personal reminiscence and narrative research, Hit the Road, Jack considers the impact that identity - particularly race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation - has on the way various journeys are taken. While literary depictions of the road have a long history, scholarship about the phenomenon is sparse. This anthology makes a significant contribution to the study of the road, bringing to light aspects of its iconic status in American culture. Contributors include Paul Attinello (Newcastle University), Stacilee Ford (University of Hong Kong), Eleanor Heginbotham (University of Maryland), Susan Kuyper (Des Moines Area Community College), Gina Marchetti (University of Hong Kong), Cotton Seiler (Dickinson University), Max J. Skidmore (University of Missouri-Kansas City), Gordon Slethaug (University of Southern Denmark), Michael Truscello (Mount Royal University), and Wendy Zierler (Hebrew Union College -Jewish Institute of Religion, New York).


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International education and the Chinese learner.
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ISBN: 9789888028443 9789888028450 Year: 2010 Publisher: Hong Kong Hong Kong university press

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