| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 188 pages) |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture |
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Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture.
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| Contents |
1. Mathematics and Politics: Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day -- 2. Mathematics, Language, Structure: Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers -- 3. Mathematics, Epistemology, Ethics: Robert Musil, The Man without Qualities -- 4. Mathematics and Fiction: Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 31, 2018). |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Modernism (Literature) -- History and criticism.
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Mathematics in literature.
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Mathematics and literature.
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Modernisme (Littérature) -- Histoire et critique.
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Mathématiques dans la littérature.
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Mathématiques et littérature.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
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Mathematics and literature
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Mathematics in literature
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Modernism (Literature)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| ISBN |
9781474416245 (electronic bk.) |
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1474416241 (electronic bk.) |
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1474416233 |
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9781474416238 |
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1474416233 |
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9781474416238 |
| Standard No. |
9781474416238 |
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