{"product_id":"joyce-chaos-and-complexity","title":"Joyce, Chaos, and Complexity","description":"Thomas Rice compellingly argues that James Joyce's work resists postmodernist approaches of ambiguity: Joyce never abandoned his conviction that reality exists, regardless of the human ability to represent it.\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e Placing Joyce in his cultural context, Rice first traces the influence of \u003ci\u003eEuclidean and non-Euclidean geometries on Dubliners\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. \u003c\/i\u003eHe then demonstrates that, when later innovations in science transformed entire worldviews, Joyce recognized conventional literary modes of representation as offering only arbitrary constructions of this reality. Joyce responded in \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e by experimenting with perspective, embedding design, and affirming the existence of reality. Rice contends that \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e presages the multiple tensions of chaos theory; likewise, chaos theory can serve as a model for understanding \u003ci\u003eUlysses.\u003c\/i\u003e In \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake\u003c\/i\u003e Joyce consummates his vision and anticipates the theories of complexity science through a dynamic approximation of reality.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54244345184600,"sku":"9780252065835","price":26.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/joyce-chaos-and-complexity","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}