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Deterministic Chaos and the Post‐Modern Narrative: Peter Stephan Jungk's Tigor
Author(s) -
Riemer Willy
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
orbis litterarum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.109
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1600-0730
pISSN - 0105-7510
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0730.1995.tb00067.x
Subject(s) - narrative , attractor , chaos (operating system) , epistemology , similarity (geometry) , chaos theory , philosophy , sociology , computer science , mathematics , chaotic , linguistics , artificial intelligence , image (mathematics) , mathematical analysis , computer security
Post‐modern narratives are concerned with questions of uncertain origins, multiple contexts, and with the evolution of internal structures rather than with explicit linear narrative trajectories. Taking Jungk's Tigor as an example, it is demonstrated that some central concepts from chaos theory, including iteration, self‐similarity and strange attractors, provide a particularly effective interpretive framework for such narratives.