Openings: the Act of Modelizing and the Question of Complexity

Richard Powers’ novels are commonly associated with “systems novels” as Tom LeClair first described them, notably because of the constant compositional use the novelist makes of different extra-textual systems (including various fields such as biology, computer science, or more extensively chaos the...

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Main Author: Emilie Janton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2010-02-01
Series:Transatlantica
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/4522