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Mathematics in Postmodern American Fiction

Mathematics in Postmodern American Fiction

Taylor, Stuart J.

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3031486706
ISBN13: 9783031486708
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Apr 25 2024
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This 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.

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