John Updike
writer · 1 mention across 1 reading
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Updike appears here as a convenient epigraph to James Gleick's popular science account of chaos theory, but the course reading uses this citation to critique Gleick's approach—flagging the tension between literary/poetic evocation of chaos and the mathematical formalism Gleick privileges. The reference marks a methodological gap that the seminar seems concerned with: how scientific narratives about complexity often strip away the mythological and philosophical dimensions that writers like Updike might preserve.
Background
John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career.
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