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This handbook features essays written by both literary scholars and
mathematicians that examine multiple facets of the connections
between literature and mathematics. These connections range from
mathematics and poetic meter to mathematics and modernism to
mathematics as literature. Some chapters focus on a single author,
such as mathematics and Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, or Charles
Dickens, while others consider a mathematical topic common to two
or more authors, such as squaring the circle, chaos theory,
Newton's calculus, or stochastic processes. With appeal for
scholars and students in literature, mathematics, cultural history,
and history of mathematics, this important volume aims to introduce
the range, fertility, and complexity of the connections between
mathematics, literature, and literary theory. Chapter 1 is
available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License via
[link.springer.com|http://link.springer.com/].
This handbook features essays written by both literary scholars and
mathematicians that examine multiple facets of the connections
between literature and mathematics. These connections range from
mathematics and poetic meter to mathematics and modernism to
mathematics as literature. Some chapters focus on a single author,
such as mathematics and Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, or Charles
Dickens, while others consider a mathematical topic common to two
or more authors, such as squaring the circle, chaos theory,
Newton's calculus, or stochastic processes. With appeal for
scholars and students in literature, mathematics, cultural history,
and history of mathematics, this important volume aims to introduce
the range, fertility, and complexity of the connections between
mathematics, literature, and literary theory. Chapter 1 is
available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License via
[link.springer.com|http://link.springer.com/].
This collection of essays explores current thematic and aesthetic
directions in fictional science narratives in different genres,
predominantly novels, but also poetry, film, and drama. The ten
case studies, covering a range of British and American texts from
the late twentieth to the twenty-first centuries, reflect the
diversity of representations of science in contemporary fiction,
including psychopharmacology and neuropathology, quantum physics
and mathematics, biotechnology, genetics, and chemical weaponry.
This collection considers how texts engage with science and
technology to explore relations between bodies and minds, how such
connectivities shape conceptions and narrations of the human, and
how the speculative view of science fiction features alongside
realist engagements with the Victorian period and modernism.
Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, contributors offer new
insights into narrative engagement with science and its place in
life today, in times past, and in times to come. Chapter 1 is
available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License via link.springer.com.
This collection of essays explores current thematic and aesthetic
directions in fictional science narratives in different genres,
predominantly novels, but also poetry, film, and drama. The ten
case studies, covering a range of British and American texts from
the late twentieth to the twenty-first centuries, reflect the
diversity of representations of science in contemporary fiction,
including psychopharmacology and neuropathology, quantum physics
and mathematics, biotechnology, genetics, and chemical weaponry.
This collection considers how texts engage with science and
technology to explore relations between bodies and minds, how such
connectivities shape conceptions and narrations of the human, and
how the speculative view of science fiction features alongside
realist engagements with the Victorian period and modernism.
Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, contributors offer new
insights into narrative engagement with science and its place in
life today, in times past, and in times to come. Chapter 1 is
available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License via link.springer.com.
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.
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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