03072nam 2200565 450 991068457010332120230814223757.01-4744-4965-41-4744-1625-X1-4744-1624-110.1515/9781474416245(CKB)4100000005599404(MiAaPQ)EBC5482817(StDuBDS)EDZ0001977238(DE-B1597)616571(DE-B1597)9781474416245(OCoLC)1306541509(ScCtBLL)fc965cf9-1de8-4b5f-a559-d3ea2481028d(EXLCZ)99410000000559940420180915d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierModernism, fiction and mathematics /Nina EngelhardtEdinburgh :Edinburgh University Press,2019.1 online resource (ix, 188 pages)Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist CulturePreviously issued in print: 2018.1-4744-1623-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- INDEXModernism 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 modernism to the wider context of modernist critiques of Enlightenment values and postmodern reassessments of modernist patterns. The analysis of canonical works by Thomas Pynchon, Hermann Broch, and Robert Musil demonstrates how mathematics is accorded a central role as a particularly telling indicator of modernist transformations, and how imaginative illustrations contribute to establishing mathematics as part of modernist culture.Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture.Modernism (Literature)History and criticismMathematics in literatureMathematics and literatureModernism (Literature)History and criticism.Mathematics in literature.Mathematics and literature.809.9112Engelhardt Nina1221269MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910684570103321Modernism, fiction and mathematics2832019UNINA