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Entropy
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LITERATURA NORTEAMERICANA S. XX
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grado estudios ingleses
literatura
lit norteamericana
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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
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