03527nam 22006735 450 991085199590332120250807153139.097830314867089783031486715303148671410.1007/978-3-031-48671-5(CKB)31636290800041(MiAaPQ)EBC31304016(Au-PeEL)EBL31304016(DE-He213)978-3-031-48671-5(EXLCZ)993163629080004120240423d2024 u| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMathematics in Postmodern American Fiction /by Stuart J. Taylor1st ed. 2024.Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2024.1 online resource (315 pages)Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,2634-64439783031486708 3031486706 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.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.Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,2634-6443AmericaLiteraturesLiterature, Modern20th centuryLiterature, Modern21st centuryElectronic publishingLiteratureHistory and criticismNorth American LiteratureContemporary LiteratureNet LiteratureLiterary CriticismAmericaLiteratures.Literature, ModernLiterature, ModernElectronic publishing.LiteratureHistory and criticism.North American Literature.Contemporary Literature.Net Literature.Literary Criticism.813.5409Taylor Stuart J.1771477MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910851995903321Mathematics in Postmodern American Fiction4261509UNINA