Mathematics in Postmodern American Fiction by Stuart J. Taylor (2024, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan

ISBN-103031486706

ISBN-139783031486708

eBay Product ID (ePID)28063422021

Product Key Features

Book TitleMathematics in Postmodern American Fiction

Number of PagesIX, 308 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

TopicGeneral, American / General, Modern / General

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism

AuthorStuart J. Taylor

Book SeriesPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.8 in

Additional Product Features

Dewey Edition23

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Dewey Decimal813.5409113

Table Of ContentIntroduction.- 1. Topological Structures and Allusion in Ratner's Star.- 2. Algebraic Structures and Metaphor in Gravity's Rainbow.- 3. Ordered Structures and Cognition in Infinite Jest.- 4. Conclusion: Literary Legacy of Mathematical Structures.

SynopsisThis book delivers an innovative critical approach to better understand U.S. fiction of the information age, and argues that in the last eighty years, fiction has become increasingly concerned with its representations of mathematical ideas, images, and practices. In so doing, this book provides a fuller, transnational account of the place of mathematics in understanding mathematically informed novels. Literature and science studies have acknowledged and situated historical points of cultural crossover; by emphasising mathematics within this larger intellectual context - and not as an unlikely and alien adjunct to post-war culture - this monograph clarifies how mathematically informed postmodern fictions work in a cognate fashion to other fields undergoing structuralist revolutions. This is especially evident in fiction by the key, mathematically-literate Postmodern authors upon whom this study focuses, namely, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and David Foster Wallace, through which recent the technological revolutions, facilitated by mathematics, manifest in cultural discourse.

LC Classification NumberPN843-846