Synthesizing systems : the work of art and of science in the fiction of Richard Powers
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Anna Darden Copeland (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Marilyn May Lombardi
Abstract: The purpose of this dissertation is to introduce a general reading audience to the major themes found in the fiction of Richard Powers with an emphasis on his use of science. For Powers, science is something more than the accumulation of technical data and the proliferation of theories developed to explain physical phenomena. It is an evolving body of knowledge which has important insights to contribute into the conditions which ground human experience The close and often detailed discussions of contemporary issues in science which Powers incorporates into his fiction indicate the extent to which he sees science as an inseparable component in any attempt to understand the complexities of human experience.
Synthesizing systems : the work of art and of science in the fiction of Richard Powers
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- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 1995
- Subjects
- Powers, Richard, $d 1957- $x Criticism and interpretation
- Literature and science $z United States $x History $y 20th century