Gatsby's party: The system and the list.

Title: Gatsby's party: The system and the list.
Identifier: AAI9108189
identifier: 9108189
Creator: White, Patricia S.
Contributor: Adviser: Gerhard Joseph
Date: 1990
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Literature, American | Literature, Modern
Abstract: Systems theory suggests that narrative is a self-organizing information entity which instantiates itself through complex relations and chaos-management processes. Indeed, it implies that similar information processing and configuration activities occur at levels above and below the narrative, in the cultural discourse system and in narratological component structures such as the list. Here, Fitzgerald's list of guests from The Great Gatsby serves as a frame for an analysis of structural operations within narrative. Discussions of systemic operations, pattern recognition, list construction, and discourse formation surround sections of literary interpretation; these focus on list-systems within contemporary fiction as a practical application of the systems-theoretical approach to narrative. Included are: Don DeLillo (White Noise), Thomas Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow), John Barth (The Sot-Weed Factor), and Julian Barnes (Flaubert's Parrot).
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.