UID:
almahu_9949723946502882
Format:
IX, 308 p. 11 illus., 1 illus. in color.
,
online resource.
Edition:
1st ed. 2024.
ISBN:
9783031486715
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
Content:
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.
Note:
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.
In:
Springer Nature eBook
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783031486708
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783031486722
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783031486739
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-031-48671-5
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48671-5
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