03661nam a22005895i 4500 978-3-031-48671-5 DE-He213 20251030112005.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240423s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031486715 978-3-031-48671-5 10.1007/978-3-031-48671-5 doi PN843-846 DS bicssc 1KB bicssc LIT004020 bisacsh DS 1KB thema Taylor, Stuart J. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 75577 Mathematics in Postmodern American Fiction [electronic resource] / by Stuart J. Taylor. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. IX, 308 p. 11 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, 2634-6443 Introduction -- 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. 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. Stuart J. Taylor is a Lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK. America Literatures. 66799 Literature, Modern 20th century. Literature, Modern 21st century. 66700 Electronic publishing. 75578 Literature History and criticism. 66499 North American Literature. 66800 Contemporary Literature. 66702 Net Literature. 75579 Literary Criticism. 66500 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031486708 Printed edition: 9783031486722 Printed edition: 9783031486739 Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, 2634-6443 66328 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48671-5 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 59301 59301