1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910467040903321

Autore

Belile Nina

Titolo

Vous saurez tout sur le permis : un livre rassurant pour les maudits du volant / / Nina Belile

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brussels, Belgium ; ; Paris, France : , : La Boîte à Pandore, , [2015]

ISBN

2-39009-045-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Disciplina

629.283

Soggetti

Automobile driver education

Automobile drivers' tests

Drivers' licenses

REFERENCE - Personal & Practical Guides

TRANSPORTATION - Automotive - Driver Education

TRANSPORTATION - Automotive - General

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910851995903321

Autore

Taylor Stuart J.

Titolo

Mathematics in Postmodern American Fiction / / by Stuart J. Taylor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9783031486708

9783031486715

3031486714

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, , 2634-6443

Disciplina

813.5409

Soggetti

America - Literatures

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Literature, Modern - 21st century

Electronic publishing

Literature - History and criticism

North American Literature

Contemporary Literature

Net Literature

Literary Criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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. Stuart J. Taylor is a Lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK.