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Complexity : A Paradigm for Narrative?

John Pier
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Complexity does not serve as a paradigm for narratology so much as it offers a transdisciplinary perspective for viewing narratological principles in terms of their possible degrees of commensurability with the loose federation of complexity sciences. With reference to Ilya Prigogine’s nonequilibrium thermodynamics, Pier shows how narrative sequentiality, whose standard formulations reflect the laws of Newtonian classical mechanics, might profitably be viewed, in today’s research environment, in terms of irreversibility or the “arrow of time.” Doing so supplants equilibrium and disequilibrium as defining features of narrative sequence in favor of the principles of stochastic (or random) processes, dissipative structures and spontaneous self-organization together with the instabilities engendered by nonlinearity, positive feedback and bifurcations. When sequentiality is viewed in this way, the properties found at the micro scale of narrative are not reduplicated at the macro scale, thus severing the isomorphic relations between parts and emergent wholes.

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hal-03869464, version 1 (24-11-2022)

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John Pier. Complexity : A Paradigm for Narrative?. Per Krogh Hansen; John Pier; Philippe Roussin; Wolf Schmid. Emerging Vectors of Narratology, De Gruyter, pp.533-565, 2017. ⟨hal-03869464⟩
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