Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics

ISBN-13: 9781474416238 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 200 str.

Nina Engelhardt

Opis

An analysis of novelistic explorations of modernism in mathematics and its cultural interrelations

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Series Editors’ Preface; 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.