This 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.
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ISBN
9783031486715
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Springer Nature
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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