{"product_id":"modernism-fiction-and-mathematics-nina-engelhardt-9781474416238","title":"Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn analysis of novelistic explorations of modernism in mathematics and its cultural interrelations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eModernism 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 book 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. In its interdisciplinary exploration of modernist interrelations between the surprisingly closely related fields of mathematics and literature, the book draws on prose works by mathematicians, research in the history and philosophy of mathematics, and literary scholarship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKey Features: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReveals new frames of textual and cultural analysis that help understand the modernist condition from the interdisciplinary perspective of literature and mathematics studiesSupports the notion of mathematical modernism through analysis of literary fiction, thereby advancing knowledge of modernism in science with a literary perspectiveHighlights the role of mathematics in modernist works and postmodernist re-examinations of modernity and modernismElucidates crucial and not easily accessible aspects of canonical works, which open up new avenues for research\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nina Engelhardt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474416233\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474416238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/06\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.60d","brand":"Nina Engelhardt","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136661434623,"sku":"9781474416238","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e1c8127b-1e5c-4a49-ad69-b2f53bd6773c.jpg?v=1770164027","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/modernism-fiction-and-mathematics-nina-engelhardt-9781474416238","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}