品钦对熵的创造性误用

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2017-06-16 DOI:10.16995/ORBIT.220

A. Rolls

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摘要

这篇文章认为，大卫·莱茨勒对托马斯·品钦的《熵》的批评虽然在某些方面是准确的，但在试图结束对短篇小说的解读时被误导了，这些解读侧重于在信息论和热力学领域中熵的使用。在承认品钦做错了事情的同时，这篇文章请评论家们探讨品钦是如何试图通过将他认为自己知道的东西放在通常与热力学或信息论无关的环境中来操纵他缺乏知识的。

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Pynchon’s Creative Misuse of Entropy

The article argues that David Letzler’s critique of Thomas Pynchon’s “Entropy,” while accurate in some respects, is misguided in its attempt to close down interpretations of the short story that focus on its use of entropy, both in the field of Information Theory and Thermodynamics. While acknowledging that Pynchon got things wrong, the article asks critics to explore how Pynchon tries to manipulate his lack of knowledge by situating what he thought he knew in contexts not normally associated with Thermodynamics or Information Theory.

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Orbit (Cambridge) Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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0.20

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15 weeks

期刊介绍： Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon is a journal that publishes high quality, rigorously reviewed and innovative scholarly material on the works of Thomas Pynchon, related authors and adjacent fields in 20th- and 21st-century literature. We publish special and general issues in a rolling format, which brings together a traditional journal article style with the latest publishing technology to ensure faster, yet prestigious, publication for authors.