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Mathematics in Postmodern American Fiction: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

Autor Stuart J. Taylor
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 apr 2024
This book delivers an innovative critical approach to better understand U.S. fiction of the information age, and argues that in the last eighty years, fiction has become increasingly concerned with its representations of mathematical ideas, images, and practices. In so doing, this book provides a fuller, transnational account of the place of mathematics in understanding mathematically informed novels. Literature and science studies have acknowledged and situated historical points of cultural crossover; by emphasising mathematics within this larger intellectual context – and not as an unlikely and alien adjunct to post-war culture – this monograph clarifies how mathematically informed postmodern fictions work in a cognate fashion to other fields undergoing structuralist revolutions. This is especially evident in fiction by the key, mathematically-literate Postmodern authors upon whom this study focuses, namely, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and David Foster Wallace, through which recent the technological revolutions, facilitated by mathematics, manifest in cultural discourse.


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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783031486708
ISBN-10: 3031486706
Ilustrații: IX, 308 p. 11 illus., 1 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Ediția:2024
Editura: Springer Nature Switzerland
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Introduction.- 1. Topological Structures and Allusion in Ratner’s Star.- 2. Algebraic Structures and Metaphor in Gravity’s Rainbow.- 3. Ordered Structures and Cognition in Infinite Jest.- 4. Conclusion: Literary Legacy of Mathematical Structures.

Notă biografică

Stuart J. Taylor is a Lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK.


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This book delivers an innovative critical approach to better understand U.S. fiction of the information age, and argues that in the last eighty years, fiction has become increasingly concerned with its representations of mathematical ideas, images, and practices. In so doing, this book provides a fuller, transnational account of the place of mathematics in understanding mathematically informed novels. Literature and science studies have acknowledged and situated historical points of cultural crossover; by emphasising mathematics within this larger intellectual context – and not as an unlikely and alien adjunct to post-war culture – this monograph clarifies how mathematically informed postmodern fictions work in a cognate fashion to other fields undergoing structuralist revolutions. This is especially evident in fiction by the key, mathematically-literate Postmodern authors upon whom this study focuses, namely, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and David Foster Wallace, through which recent the technological revolutions, facilitated by mathematics, manifest in cultural discourse. 
Stuart J. Taylor is a Lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK.


Caracteristici

Emphasises the contingency of mathematics on cultural and political changes Focuses on new understanding of literary postmodernism in dialogue with mathematical science Reveals the overlooked ways in which representative mathematical concepts inform signature literary developments