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The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Mathematics / / edited by Robert Tubbs, Alice Jenkins, Nina Engelhardt
| The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Mathematics / / edited by Robert Tubbs, Alice Jenkins, Nina Engelhardt |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2021.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XXII, 623 p. 25 illus., 6 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina | 510.1 |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature - Philosophy
Mathematics - Philosophy Science - History Mathematics History Social sciences Literary Theory Philosophy of Mathematics History of Science History of Mathematical Sciences Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences |
| ISBN |
1-80316-181-7
3-030-55478-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Relationships and Connections between Literature and Mathematics, Nina Engelhardt, Robert Tubbs -- 2. Numbered Possibilities: Chaucer and the Evolution of Late-Medieval Mathematics, David Baker -- 3. Mercantile Arithmetic and Financial Profit in Ben Jonson’s The Devil is an Ass, Joe Jarrett -- 4. Mathematics and Poetry in the Nineteenth Century, Daniel Brown -- 5. Non-normative Euclideans: Victorian Literature and the Untaught Geometer, Alice Jenkins -- 6. Mathematical Contrariness in George Eliot's Novels, Derek Ball -- 7. Mathematics in Russian Avant-garde Literature, Anke Niederbudde -- 8. Uses of Chaos Theory and Fractal Geometry in Fiction, Alex Kasman -- 9. Mathematical Clinamen in the Encyclopedic Novel: Pynchon, DeLillo, Wallace, Stuart Taylor -- 10. Squaring the Circle: A Literary History, Robert Tubbs -- 11. Mathematics and Poetic Meter, Jason Hall -- 12. Randomizing Form: Stochastics and Combinatorics in Postwar Literature, Alison James -- 13. Oulipian Mathematics, Warren Motte -- 14. Mathematics and Dramaturgy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Liliane Campos -- 15. Nonlinearity, Writing, and Creative Process, Ira Livingston -- 16. Mathematics and Modernism, Nina Engelhardt -- 17. Mathematics in German Literature: Paradoxes of Infinity, Howard Pollack-Milgate -- 18. Ghosts of Departed Quantities: Samuel Beckett and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Chris Ackerley -- 19. 'Numbers have such pretty names': Gertrude Stein's Mathematical Poetics, Anne Brubaker -- 20. Modernist Literature and Modernist Mathematics I: Mathematics and Composition, with Mallarmé, Heisenberg, and Derrida, Arkady Plotnitsky -- 21. Modernist Literature and Modernist Mathematics II: Mathematics and Event, with Mallarmé, Gödel, and Badiou, Arkady Plotnitsky -- 22. King Lear, Without the Mathematics: From Reading Mathematics to Reading Mathematically, Travis D. Williams -- 23. Newton, Burns, and a Poetics of Figure: Toward a Prehistory of Consilience, Matthew Wickman -- 24. The Mathematics of Associationism in Laurence Sterne's Tristam Shandy, Aaron Ottinger -- 25. Romantic Parts and Wholes, Statistical and Literary, Margaret Kolb -- 26. “Colours of the Dying Dolphins”: Nineteenth-Century Defences of Literature and Mathematics, Imogen Forbes-Macphail -- 27. Combinatorial Characters, Andrea Henderson -- 28. Datelines, Steven Connor -- 29. The Metaphor as an Equation: Ezra Pound and the Similitudes of Representation, Jocelyn Rodal -- 30. Rehearsing in the Margins: Mathematical Print and Mathematical Learning in the Early Modern Period, Benjamin Wardhaugh -- 31. Mathematics, Narrative, and Temporality, Marcus Tomalin -- 32. A Cognitive and Quantitative Approach to Mathematical Concretization, Marc Alexander. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910484245703321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction : Human and Temporal Connectivities / / edited by Nina Engelhardt, Julia Hoydis
| Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction : Human and Temporal Connectivities / / edited by Nina Engelhardt, Julia Hoydis |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (IX, 217 p. 1 illus.) |
| Disciplina |
809
809.9336 |
| Collana | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - 20th century
Literature, Modern - 21st century Literature and technology Mass media and literature Fiction Contemporary Literature Literature and Technology Fiction Literature |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Connectivities Between Literature and Science in the Twenty-First Century -- 2. The Rise of Psychopharmacological Fiction -- 3. Neuropathologies: Cognition, Technology, and the Network Paradigm in Scott Bakker’s Neuropath and Dave Eggers’s The Circle -- 4. New Science, New Stories: Quantum Physics as a Narrative Trope in Contemporary Fiction. - 5. Digital Technologies and Concrete Poetry: Word, Algorithm, Body -- 6. Towards a Posthumanist Conceptualization of Society: Biotechnology in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy and Ruth Ozeki’s All Over Creation -- 7. Genealogies of Genetics: Historicising Contemporary Science in Simon Mawer’s Mendel’s Dwarf and A.S. Byatt’s A Whistling Woman -- 8. The Lures and Limitations of the Natural Sciences: Frances Hardinge’s The Lie Tree -- 9. "It’s for Fellows only!": On the Postcolonial Stance of Matthew Brown’s Maths Film The Man Who Knew Infinity -- 10. Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day and the Technologies of Modernism -- 11. Identity, Memory, and Technoscientific Ethics: Limits, Edges, and Borders in The Forbidden Zone. . |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910484049303321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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