Finally, the dissertation has a visual, practical component - a set of typewritten replicas of DeLillo's pages of drafts from the writing of 'Libra', produced during a research period at the Harry Ransom Center (University of Texas at Austin). The dissertation then applies these thoughts in a sustained fashion to DeLillo's novel 'Libra', a historical work that makes a deep engagement with the US government's 'Warren Report' a text that DeLillo considers Joycean in its scope and its polyphony.

This theory is tentatively proposed as 'porous modernism'. Implications for Paradigm Shift in Nursing A Critical Analysis of Thomas Kuhn s Revolutionary Science and Its Relevance to Nursing Younas, Ahtisham MN, BSN Parsons, Karen PhD, RN Author Information Advances in Nursing Science: July/September 2019 - Volume 42 - Issue 3 - p 243-254 doi: 10.1097/ANS. The terms paradigm and paradigm shift quickly escaped the narrow confines of history and philosophy of science and are today rarely used to describe scientific change. A theory is developed to account for the kind of intertextuality at work in both these areas an intertextuality that is less a tissue of reference and quotation and more a 'hosting' of other practices. A half century ago Thomas Kuhn coined the term paradigm shift in his The Structure of Scientific Revolutionsto describe the way that science lurches unpredictably forward. The literary critique/analysis of DeLillo's fiction is counterbalanced by a reading of Thomas Crow's art-historical writing, especially his account of the work of Christopher Williams.

Kuhn used the term to articulate his views about how science changes over time, arguing that it does not evolve gradually toward a truth.

This dissertation was an enquiry into the role of the 'artist' characters in the novels of Don DeLillo and, through these figures, an enquiry into the notion of 'installing' one practice within another. Paradigm Shifts Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996 American philosopher of science), in his eminent book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), fundamentally argues that science does not progress as a linear accumulation of new knowledge, but undergoes periodic revolutions called paradigm shifts. The term paradigm shift was first coined by American philosopher Thomas Kuhn in his 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

Kuhn paradigm shift