TY - BOOK AU - Taylor,Stuart J. ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Mathematics in Postmodern American Fiction T2 - Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, SN - 9783031486715 AV - PN843-846 PY - 2024/// CY - Cham PB - Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - America KW - Literatures KW - Literature, Modern KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - Electronic publishing KW - Literature KW - History and criticism KW - North American Literature KW - Contemporary Literature KW - Net Literature KW - Literary Criticism N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48671-5 ER -