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    STUDIA PSYCHOLOGIA-PAEDAGOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2008  
         
  Article:   WINTERSON’S NARRATIVE STRUCTURE AND THE NEW PHYSICS: “GUT SYMMETRIES”.

Authors:  ALINA PREDA. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Jeanette Winterson’s interest in scientific theories and research, which she clearly expresses in “GUT Symmetries”, points to the most important tendencies at work today in the field of scientific inquiry. The author’s choice of characters, two physicists and a poet, allows for an in-depth analysis of the relationships between different domains of knowledge. Thus, Winterson’s fictional universe uncovered in this particular novel may seem, at first, impregnable: in the absence of a minimal background in physics, mathematics, and quantum mechanics the meaning of Winterson’s Zen-like maxims cannot be grasped. This grafting of physics and poetry is Winterson’s innovative method of linking science and literature, to show that the novel is a genre able to engage the dizzying advance of scientific discoveries of the 20th and 21st centuries.  
         
     
         
         
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