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Wickman Matthew |
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Literature after Euclid : the geometric imagination in the long Scottish Enlightenment / / Matthew Wickman |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2016 |
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1 online resource (302 p.) |
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Scottish literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
English literature - Scottish authors - History and criticism |
Geometry in literature |
Enlightenment - Scotland |
Scotland Intellectual life 18th century |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Scotland’s Age of Union: Toward an Elongated Eighteenth Century -- Chapter 2. Scott’s Shapes -- Chapter 3. “Wild Geometry” and the Picturesque -- Chapter 4. Burns After Reading, or, On the Poetic Fold Between Shape and Number -- Chapter 5. The Newtonian Turn/Turning from Newton: James Thomson’s Poetic Calculus -- Chapter 6. A Long and Shapely Eighteenth Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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What if historical fiction were understood as a disfiguring of calculus? Or poems enacting the formation and breakdown of community as expositions of irrational numbers? What if, in other words, literary texts possessed a kind of mathematical unconscious?The persistence of the rhetoric of "two cultures," one scientific, the other humanities-based, obscures the porous border and productive relationship that has long existed between literature and mathematics. In eighteenth-century Scottish universities, geometry in particular was considered one of the humanities; anchored in philosophy, it inculcated what we call critical thinking. But challenges to classical geometry within the realm of |
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mathematics obligated Scottish geometers to become more creative in their defense of the traditional discipline; and when literary writers and philosophers incorporated these mathematical problems into their own work, the results were not only ingenious but in some cases pioneering. Literature After Euclid tells the story of the creative adaptation of geometry in Scotland during and after the long eighteenth century. It argues that diverse attempts in literature and philosophy to explain or even emulate the geometric achievements of Isaac Newton and others resulted in innovations that modify our understanding of descriptive and bardic poetry, the aesthetics of the picturesque, and the historical novel. Matthew Wickman's analyses of these innovations in the work of Walter Scott, Robert Burns, James Thomson, David Hume, Thomas Reid, and other literati change how we perceive the Scottish Enlightenment and the later, modernist ethos that purportedly relegated the "classical" Enlightenment to the dustbin of history. Indeed, the Scottish Enlightenment's geometric imagination changes how we see literary history itself. |
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UNISA996359644703316 |
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Howanitz Gernot (Universität Passau, Deutschland) |
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Leben weben : (Auto-)Biographische Praktiken russischer Autorinnen und Autoren im Internet / Gernot Howanitz |
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Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2020 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (376 p.) |
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Autobiographie; Biographie; Russland; Internet; Autorschaft; Blogs; Soziale Netzwerke; Digital Humanities; Literatur; Medien; Slavistik; Social Media; Literaturtheorie; Literaturwissenschaft; Autobiography; Biography; Russia; Authorship; Social Networks; Literature; Media; Slavic Studies; Theory of Literature; Literary Studies |
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Frontmatter 1 Inhalt 5 Danksagung 7 Einführung 9 (Auto-) |
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Biographische Praktiken im Runet 25 Versuch einer literarischen Topologie 81 Webauftritte mit Schwerpunkt Politik 109 Aus der Nähe I: Boris Akunin 131 Webauftritte mit Schwerpunkt Alltag 159 Aus der Nähe II: Linor Goralik 191 Webauftritte mit Schwerpunkt Literatur 227 Aus der Nähe III: Alja Kudrjaseva 259 Resümee 289 Literatur 307 Index 367 |
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Das Internet als das Medium der Selbstdarstellung schlechthin wird auch von russischen Autorinnen und Autoren gerne genutzt. Sie übernehmen Bilder der Schriftstellerin bzw. des Schriftstellers aus der russischen Literaturtradition, passen sie auf die kommunikativen Gegebenheiten des Web an und erschaffen sie in medialen Experimenten neu. Doch wie lassen sich die unter der Oberfläche des Web 2.0 operierenden kreativen Mechanismen identifizieren und im Kontext der Literaturtheorie verorten? Gernot Howanitz verschränkt in seinem Buch qualitative und quantitative Verfahren im Sinne der Digital Humanities, um den (auto-)biographischen Praktiken im russischsprachigen Internet (Runet) nachzuspüren. Die dem Buch zugrundeliegende Dissertation wurde ausgezeichnet mit dem Gustav-Figdor-Preis für Literaturwissenschaften, verliehen durch die Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (2018), dem Dissertationspreis der Universität Passau (2018) sowie dem DARIAH-DE Digital Humanities Award (2018). |
Besprochen in: https://magazines.gorky.media, 5 (2020), Jewgeni Sawizkij |
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