【预订】Literary Infinities 9781501331466
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/ 2017-11-30
Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9781501331466 Author 作者 Baylee Brits Format 版本 精装 Pages Number 页数 224页 Publisher 出版社 Bloomsbury Academic Publication Date 出版日期 2017-11-30 Language 语种 英语 Book Contents 内容简介 Today, we have forgotten that mathematics was once aligned with the arts, rather than with the sciences. Literary Infinities analyses the connection between the late 19th-century revolution in the mathematics of the infinite and the literature of 20th-century modernism, opening up a novel path of influence and inquiry in modernist literature. Baylee Brits considers the role of numbers and the concept of the infinite in key modernists, including James Joyce, Italo Svevo, Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee. She begins by recuperating the difficult and rebellious German mathematician, Georg Cantor, for the broader artistic, cultural and philosophical project of
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