Gordon E. Slethaug is Chairman, Program in American Studies, at the University of Hong Kong, and author of The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction.

Acknowledgments

1. Dynamic Fiction and the Field of Action: Mimesis, Metaphor, Model, and Metachaotics

2. Orderly Systems: Growth, Competition, and Transgression

3. Entropic Crisis, Blockage, Bifurcation, and Flow

4. Turbulence, Stochastic Processes, and Traffic

5. Energy, Noise, and Information

6. Juxtapositional Symmetry: Recursion, Scaling, and Fractals

7. Iteration

8. Strange Attractors

9. Synoptic Study: "The Coded Dots of Life"

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