Beautiful Chaos: Chaos Theory and Metachaotics in Recent American Fiction -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. DYNAMIC FICTION AND THE FIELD OF ACTION: Mimesis, Metaphor, Model, and Metachaotics -- 2. ORDERLY SYSTEMS: GROWTH, COMPETITION,AND TRANSGRESSION -- 3. ENTROPIC CRISIS, BLOCKAGE,BIFURCATION, AND FLOW -- 4. TURBULENCE, STOCHASTIC PROCESSES, AND TRAFFIC -- 5. ENERGY, NOISE, AND INFORMATION -- 6. JUXTAPOSITIONAL SYMMETRY: RECURSION, SCALING, AND FRACTALS -- 7. ITERATION -- 8. STRANGE ATTRACTORS -- 9. SYNOPTIC STUDY: "THE CODED DOTS OF LIFE" -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.