LEADER 03527nam 22006735 450 001 9910851995903321 005 20250807153139.0 010 $a9783031486708 010 $a9783031486715 010 $a3031486714 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-48671-5 035 $a(CKB)31636290800041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31304016 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31304016 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-48671-5 035 $a(EXLCZ)9931636290800041 100 $a20240423d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMathematics in Postmodern American Fiction /$fby Stuart J. Taylor 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (315 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,$x2634-6443 311 08$a9783031486708 311 08$a3031486706 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $aThis book delivers an innovative critical approach to better understand U.S. fiction of the information age, and argues that in the last eighty years, fiction has become increasingly concerned with its representations of mathematical ideas, images, and practices. In so doing, this book provides a fuller, transnational account of the place of mathematics in understanding mathematically informed novels. Literature and science studies have acknowledged and situated historical points of cultural crossover; by emphasising mathematics within this larger intellectual context ? and not as an unlikely and alien adjunct to post-war culture ? this monograph clarifies how mathematically informed postmodern fictions work in a cognate fashion to other fields undergoing structuralist revolutions. This is especially evident in fiction by the key, mathematically-literate Postmodern authors upon whom this study focuses, namely, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and David Foster Wallace, through which recent the technological revolutions, facilitated by mathematics, manifest in cultural discourse. Stuart J. Taylor is a Lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,$x2634-6443 606 $aAmerica$xLiteratures 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y21st century 606 $aElectronic publishing 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNorth American Literature 606 $aContemporary Literature 606 $aNet Literature 606 $aLiterary Criticism 615 0$aAmerica$xLiteratures. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aElectronic publishing. 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 14$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aContemporary Literature. 615 24$aNet Literature. 615 24$aLiterary Criticism. 676 $a813.5409 700 $aTaylor$b Stuart J.$01771477 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910851995903321 996 $aMathematics in Postmodern American Fiction$94261509 997 $aUNINA