Literature after Euclid : the geometric imagination in the long Scottish Enlightenment /

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What if historical fiction were understood as a disfiguring of calculus? Or poems enacting the formation and breakdown of community as expositions of irrational numbers? What if, in other words, literary texts possessed a kind of mathematical unconscious?The persistence of the rhetoric of "two...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wickman, Matthew
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2016.
Series:Haney Foundation series.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Scottish literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
English literature > Scottish authors > History and criticism.
Geometry in literature.
Enlightenment > Scotland.
Littérature écossaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > Auteurs écossais > Histoire et critique.
Géométrie dans la littérature.
Siècle des Lumières > Écosse.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature > Scottish authors
Enlightenment
Geometry in literature
Intellectual life
Scottish literature
Scotland > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Écosse > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siècle.
Scotland
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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