The STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABEĹž-BOLYAI issue article summary

The summary of the selected article appears at the bottom of the page. In order to get back to the contents of the issue this article belongs to you have to access the link from the title. In order to see all the articles of the archive which have as author/co-author one of the authors mentioned below, you have to access the link from the author's name.

  
       
         
    STUDIA PSYCHOLOGIA-PAEDAGOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2006  
         
  Article:   LITERARY CRITICISM, ENTROPY AND THE “DISORDERLY TEXT”.

Authors:  ALINA PREDA. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The evolution of literary writing has mirrored the displacement of notions such as linearity, entropy, determinism, fixity, and their replacement by the opposing concepts of non-linearity, disorder, indeterminacy, fluctuation. Whereas linearity connotes a congruity between cause and effect, non-linearity cannot be associated with this kind of proportionality. This mathematical reality is mirrored in the literary field by a tendency towards spiral rather than linear story lines. Similarly, the notion of disorder, borrowed from thermodynamics and information technology, comes to inform literary writing. This is enough to prove the cultural relevance, for the development of literary criticism, of such conceptual systems usually associated with science and technology, and to show that they can be and, indeed, are employed beyond their respective scientific fields.  
         
     
         
         
      Back to previous page