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Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics (Paperback)
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Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics (Paperback)
Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture
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An analysis of novelistic explorations of modernism in mathematics
and its cultural interrelations 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. Key Features: Reveals new
frames of textual and cultural analysis that help understand the
modernist condition from the interdisciplinary perspective of
literature and mathematics studies Supports the notion of
mathematical modernism through analysis of literary fiction,
thereby advancing knowledge of modernism in science with a literary
perspective Highlights the role of mathematics in modernist works
and postmodernist re-examinations of modernity and modernism
Elucidates crucial and not easily accessible aspects of canonical
works, which open up new avenues for research
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