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Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics /

An analysis of novelistic explorations of modernism in mathematics and its cultural interrelationsModernism in mathematics - this unusual notion turns out to provide a new perspective on central questions in and beyond literary modernism. Contrasting 'mathematical fictions' from and about...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Engelhardt, Nina (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Colección:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture : ECCSMC
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE
  • LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION: ALL THAT COUNTS
  • MODERNISM, FICTION, MATHEMATICS
  • 1 MATHEMATICS AND POLITICS: THOMAS PYNCHON, AGAINST THE DAY
  • 2 MATHEMATICS, LANGUAGE, STRUCTURE: HERMANN BROCH, THE SLEEPWALKERS
  • 3 MATHEMATICS, EPISTEMOLOGY, ETHICS: ROBERT MUSIL, THE MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES
  • 4 MATHEMATICS AND FICTION: THOMAS PYNCHON, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
  • CONCLUSION: MODERNISM, FICTION AND MATHEMATICS
  • GLOSSARY
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX