Conceptual Mathematics and Literature Toward a Deep Reading of Texts and Minds.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Neuman, Yair
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : BRILL, 2020.
Colección:Studies in Mathematics in the Arts and Humanities Ser.
Temas:
Reading, Psychology of.
Lecture > Psychologie.
Reading, Psychology of
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Half Title
  • Series Information
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Figures and Tables
  • List of Greek Letters
  • Chapter 1 Introduction: On the Difficulty of Reading
  • 1 On the Difficulty of Reading
  • 2 Abstract Nonsense and Concrete Nonsense
  • 3 There Is Nothing New in This Book
  • 4 Epilogue: Borges' Insight
  • Chapter 2 Symmetries and Literature, or How the Eel Popped Out of the Tap
  • 1 On Augury, Birds and the Difficulty of Reading
  • 2 On Eels and Conceptual Mathematics
  • 3 Forgive Me Father for I Have Sinned
  • 4 Tragic Transformations
  • 5 From Sets to Categories
  • 6 The Eel and Anu's Penis
  • 7 From Anu's Penis to Conceptual Structures
  • Chapter 3 "Why Is a Raven Like a Writing Desk?": On Forgetting and Similarities
  • 1 On the Lesson We May Learn from a Riddle
  • 2 Relations: from Peirce to Tesnière
  • 2.1 Atmospheric Skull Sodomizing a Grand Piano
  • Chapter 4 Maps of Identity: From Kafka's the Metamorphosis to Borges' Cartographers
  • 1 Who Am I?
  • 2 Man Is Never Coincident with Himself
  • 3 On Borges' Map and Banach's Fixed-point Theorem
  • 4 From Bakhtin to Banach, and from Banach to Embedding
  • 5 Personal Identity: a Mathematical Perspective
  • 6 Peirce on Self and Identity
  • 7 Me, My Father, My Son and the Functor
  • 8 On Retracts and Idempotents
  • Chapter 5 Perspectives and Transformations: From Rashomon to The Death of Bunny Munro
  • 1 From a Different Perspective
  • 2 Adjoints and Back-translation
  • 2.1 The Death of Bunny Munro
  • Chapter 6 Hide and Seek: On the Reflective Novel
  • 1 Down the Rabbit Hole and into the Reflective Mind
  • 2 "Ceci N'est Pas Une Pipe"
  • 3 Down the Rabbit Hole and into the Coffee Bottle
  • 4 The Reflective Subcategory
  • 5 Rumpelstiltskin and Transformations
  • 6 Here Comes the Author
  • Chapter 7 Everything Must Change: From Rabbit, Run to the Kreutzer Sonata
  • 1 Rabbit, Run
  • 2 Transformations: the Conceptual Mathematics Perspective
  • 3 On the Troubled Relations of Harry, the Rabbit
  • 4 Some Lessons about Rabbit
  • 4.1 The Kreutzer Sonata
  • Chapter 8 On Dimensionality, Orthogonal Morphisms and the Naughty Turd
  • 1 Dimensionality and the Complexity of the Novel
  • 2 The Corrections of a Troubled Family
  • 3 On Orthogonal Morphisms, Splitting and Complex Characters
  • Chapter 9 Discussion: Toward a Deep Reading of Texts and Minds
  • 1 From the Stabat Mater to the Chanting Mountains
  • References
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index

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