03250nam a22005055i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001400153072001500167072001600182072002300198072001900221100007900240245009400319250001800413264007900431300006300510336002600573337002600599338003600625347002400661490006900685505025900754520117601013650002602189650003802215650003802253650002702291650003902318650003102357650002902388650002002417650002402437710003402461773002602495776003602521776003602557776003602593830006902629856004602698978-3-031-48671-5DE-He21320251030112005.0cr nn 008mamaa240423s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830314867157 a10.1007/978-3-031-48671-52doi 4aPN843-846 7aDS2bicssc 7a1KB2bicssc 7aLIT0040202bisacsh 7aDSx1KB2thema1 aTaylor, Stuart J.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aMathematics in Postmodern American Fictionh[electronic resource] /cby Stuart J. Taylor.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aIX, 308 p. 11 illus., 1 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,x2634-64430 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.  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. 0aAmericaxLiteratures. 0aLiterature, Modernx20th century. 0aLiterature, Modernx21st century. 0aElectronic publishing. 0aLiteraturexHistory and criticism.14aNorth American Literature.24aContemporary Literature.24aNet Literature.24aLiterary Criticism.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303148670808iPrinted edition:z978303148672208iPrinted edition:z9783031486739 0aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,x2634-644340uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48671-5