LEADER 03072nam 2200565 450 001 9910684570103321 005 20230814223757.0 010 $a1-4744-4965-4 010 $a1-4744-1625-X 010 $a1-4744-1624-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9781474416245 035 $a(CKB)4100000005599404 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5482817 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001977238 035 $a(DE-B1597)616571 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781474416245 035 $a(OCoLC)1306541509 035 $a(ScCtBLL)fc965cf9-1de8-4b5f-a559-d3ea2481028d 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000005599404 100 $a20180915d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aModernism, fiction and mathematics /$fNina Engelhardt 210 1$aEdinburgh :$cEdinburgh University Press,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 188 pages) 225 1 $aEdinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2018. 311 $a1-4744-1623-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- $tSERIES EDITORS? PREFACE -- $tLIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- $tINTRODUCTION: ALL THAT COUNTS ? MODERNISM, FICTION, MATHEMATICS -- $t1 MATHEMATICS AND POLITICS: THOMAS PYNCHON, AGAINST THE DAY -- $t2 MATHEMATICS, LANGUAGE, STRUCTURE: HERMANN BROCH, THE SLEEPWALKERS -- $t3 MATHEMATICS, EPISTEMOLOGY, ETHICS: ROBERT MUSIL, THE MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES -- $t4 MATHEMATICS AND FICTION: THOMAS PYNCHON, GRAVITY?S RAINBOW -- $tCONCLUSION: MODERNISM, FICTION AND MATHEMATICS -- $tGLOSSARY -- $tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- $tINDEX 330 8 $aModernism in mathematics - this unusual notion turns out to provide a new perspective on central questions in and beyond literary modernism. Contrasting 'mathematical fictions' from and about the heyday of mathematical modernism, this text relates literary engagements with mathematical modernism to the wider context of modernist critiques of Enlightenment values and postmodern reassessments of modernist patterns. The analysis of canonical works by Thomas Pynchon, Hermann Broch, and Robert Musil demonstrates how mathematics is accorded a central role as a particularly telling indicator of modernist transformations, and how imaginative illustrations contribute to establishing mathematics as part of modernist culture. 410 0$aEdinburgh critical studies in modernist culture. 606 $aModernism (Literature)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMathematics in literature 606 $aMathematics and literature 615 0$aModernism (Literature)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMathematics in literature. 615 0$aMathematics and literature. 676 $a809.9112 700 $aEngelhardt$b Nina$01221269 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910684570103321 996 $aModernism, fiction and mathematics$92832019 997 $aUNINA