Narrative Form and Chaos Theory in Sterne,

Drawing on the insights offered by contemporary chaos theory, Narrative Form and Chaos Theory explores how models of turbulent dynamical systems in the physical world parallel structures in certain kinds of narratives. By closely looking at Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, and William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Parker demonstrates how these insights can be applied to the analysis of narrative structure and meaning. This innovative interdisciplinary work will appeal to scholars interested in narratology and in the connection between chaos theory and literature.

Jo Alyson Parker is Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. Her publications include The Author’s Inheritance: Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, and the Establishment of the Novel, Time and Memory: The Study of Time XII (coedited with Michael Crawford and Paul Harris), and essays on eighteenth-century writers and on narrative and time.

Chaos theory and the dynamics of narrative	p. 1
Narrating against the clockwork hegemony : Tristram Shandy's games with temporality	p. 31
Narrating the workings of memory : iteration and attraction in In search of lost time	p. 61
Narrating the unbounded : Mrs. Dalloway's life, Septimus's death, and Sally's kiss	p. 87
Narrating the indeterminate : Shreve McCannon in Absalom, Absalom!	p. 111
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Narrative Form and Chaos Theory in Sterne, Proust, Woolf, and Faulkner

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