Modernism, fiction and mathematics /

Modernism, fiction and mathematics / / Nina Engelhardt.

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 text relates literary engagements with mathematical mod...

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Superior document:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture
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Engelhardt, Nina,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 188 pages).
Notes:Previously issued in print: 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • SERIES EDITORS’ PREFACE
  • LIST OF 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

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