Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Entropy
- style
- non-linear
- challenging, polisemy
- theme: technological
progress is behind
modern distress
- countercultural
ambivalence: literature that
explored lives of those at the
margin of technoculture
- scientific concepts
- thermodynamics
- heat-death
- cultural condition
- communication theory
- white noise
- sameness
(equilibrium but
stagnancy)
- loss of information in message
- entropy low when
several meanings
- entropy high when
communication is
noiseless
- transfer of energy in literary
systems by intertextuality
- open/closed systems
- devices
- allusions
- playfulness
- intertextuality:
Miller's Tropic of
Cancer
- minimal
characterization
(space & action)
- merging
authorial voice
with Callisto's
autobiography
- fugue-like structure: theme
stated, then reiterated
- exposition,
development,
"stretto"
- pedal point:
dominant
(increasing
tension) tonic
(releasing
tension)
- postmodernist traits
- scientific
metanarratives and
reason questioned
- deconstruction
of meaning
- playful challenge to
readers' expectations