Life Breaks In

This essay takes as its framework the concept of entropy, a thermodynamic principle which describes the degree of disorder in a system. As entropy is always increasing, so is the intensity of destruction, decay and chaos in the systems of the modernist text. The essay uncovers the entropic compulsio...

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Published in:	Groundings
Main Author:	Josie Rogers
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Glasgow University Union 2017-11-01
Subjects:	Entropic Modernism Virginia Woolf Modernism Mrs Dalloway The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad
Online Access:	https://journals.gla.ac.uk/groundings/article/view/192

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