Richard Powers’ novels are commonly associated with “systems novels” as Tom LeClair first described them, notably because of the constant compositional use the novelist makes of different extra-textual systems (including various fields such as biology, computer science, or more extensively chaos theory).To what extent do those modelized systems, apparently meant to supply structuring tools to readers keen for interpretive keys, contribute to the novels’ inner complexity, and how does their installation in the texts take place? The way I have chosen to address this issue is to look into the openings of the novels as privileged locations where formal guidelines are provided. Focusing on the openings helps point out functional variations in th...
Models are being used extensively for practicing and understanding scientific, engineering and mathe...
Dans le roman de Richard Powers Operation Wandering Soul, la linéarité conventionnelle du récit cède...
Although some of the ‘masters’ of postmodernism are still producing ‘postmodern’ narratives (e.g. Ro...
Richard Powers’ novels are commonly associated with “systems novels” as Tom LeClair first described ...
Although the relationship between literature and science has been a major focus of research in the l...
Recent narrative studies of complexity theory have shown that so-called ‘emergent complexity’ does n...
Complex systems exacerbate a common problem for scientific enquiry: the difficulty of creating model...
Cette thèse examine la relation entre la partie et le tout dans les romans d’Antoine François Prévos...
From Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (1985) to The Echo Maker (2006), American novelist Richar...
L’alternance de deux récits différents au sein d’une même narration constitue l’une des marques les ...
This essay describes how using unsupervised topic modeling (specifically the latent Dirichlet alloca...
This thesis examines the relationship between part and whole in novels by Antoine François Prévost t...
Richard Powers’ novels are best known for the diverse and rich quality of their themes, for the dens...
Cette étude propose d’examiner comment la théorie de la complexité traverse le roman de Saramago, qu...
Cette thèse veut explorer l’idée de l’existence d’un roman de la non-linéarité, à travers un inventa...
Models are being used extensively for practicing and understanding scientific, engineering and mathe...
Dans le roman de Richard Powers Operation Wandering Soul, la linéarité conventionnelle du récit cède...
Although some of the ‘masters’ of postmodernism are still producing ‘postmodern’ narratives (e.g. Ro...
Richard Powers’ novels are commonly associated with “systems novels” as Tom LeClair first described ...
Although the relationship between literature and science has been a major focus of research in the l...
Recent narrative studies of complexity theory have shown that so-called ‘emergent complexity’ does n...
Complex systems exacerbate a common problem for scientific enquiry: the difficulty of creating model...
Cette thèse examine la relation entre la partie et le tout dans les romans d’Antoine François Prévos...
From Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (1985) to The Echo Maker (2006), American novelist Richar...
L’alternance de deux récits différents au sein d’une même narration constitue l’une des marques les ...
This essay describes how using unsupervised topic modeling (specifically the latent Dirichlet alloca...
This thesis examines the relationship between part and whole in novels by Antoine François Prévost t...
Richard Powers’ novels are best known for the diverse and rich quality of their themes, for the dens...
Cette étude propose d’examiner comment la théorie de la complexité traverse le roman de Saramago, qu...
Cette thèse veut explorer l’idée de l’existence d’un roman de la non-linéarité, à travers un inventa...
Models are being used extensively for practicing and understanding scientific, engineering and mathe...
Dans le roman de Richard Powers Operation Wandering Soul, la linéarité conventionnelle du récit cède...
Although some of the ‘masters’ of postmodernism are still producing ‘postmodern’ narratives (e.g. Ro...