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Nina Engelhardt - Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics

Av Nina Engelhardt

Del i serien Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture

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Modernism 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 the heyday of mathematical modernism, this book relates literary engagements with mathematical modernism to the wider context of modernist critiques of Enlightenment values and postmodern reassessments of modernist patterns. The analysis of canonical works by Thomas Pynchon, Hermann Broch, and Robert Musil demonstrates how mathematics is accorded a central role as a particularly telling indicator of modernist transformations, and how imaginative illustrations contribute to establishing mathematics as part of modernist culture. In its interdisciplinary exploration of modernist interrelations between the surprisingly closely related fields of mathematics and literature, the book draws on prose works by mathematicians, research in the history and philosophy of mathematics, and literary scholarship.
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Nina Engelhardt is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Stuttgart. She received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh and has since held research and teaching positions at the University of Edinburgh, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh, and the University of Cologne.

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[The book] does not force mathematical concepts on literary works, but analyses texts which are deeply concerned with mathematics and its role in our approach to physical reality, but also as a cultural expression and even moral guideline. It is truly interdisciplinary, i. e. it does not rely on popularizations of science or previous works in the field of ‘science and literature’ but turns to the original source texts and to research from historians of science for the reconstruction of the relevant mathematical concepts and theories.

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