The Palgrave handbook of literature and mathematics. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Handbook of literature and mathematics; Literature and mathematics
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Robert Tubbs, Alice Jenkins, Nina Engelhardt.
• Editors: Tubbs, Robert, 1954-; Jenkins, Alice, 1970-; Engelhardt, Nina
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Relationships and Connections between Literature and Mathematics Nina Engelhardt, Robert Tubbs Part 1. Mathematics in Literature 2. Numbered Possibilities: Chaucer and the Evolution of Late-Medieval Mathematics David Baker 3. Mercantile Arithmetic and Financial Profit in Ben Jonson's The Devil is an Ass Joe Jarrett 4. Mathematics and Poetry in the Nineteenth Century Daniel Brown 5. Non-normative Euclideans: Victorian Literature and the Untaught Geometer Alice Jenkins 6. Mathematical Contrariness in George Eliot's novels Derek Ball 7. Mathematics in Russian Avant-garde Literature Anke Niederbudde 8. Uses of Chaos Theory and Fractal Geometry in Fiction Alex Kasman 9. Mathematical Clinamen in the Encyclopedic Novel: Pynchon, DeLillo, Wallace Stuart Taylor 10. Squaring the Circle: A Literary History Robert Tubbs Part 2. Mathematics and Literary Forms 11. Mathematics and Poetic Meter Jason Hall 12. Randomizing Form: Stochastics and Combinatorics in Postwar Literature Alison James 13. Oulipian Mathematics Warren Motte 14. Mathematics and Dramaturgy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Liliane Campos 15. Nonlinearity, Writing, and Creative Process Ira Livingston Part 3. Mathematics, Modernism, and Literature 16. Mathematics and Modernism Nina Engelhardt 17. Mathematics in German Literature: Paradoxes of Infinity Howard Pollack-Milgate 18. Ghosts of Departed Quantities: Samuel Beckett and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Chris Ackerley 19. 'Numbers have such pretty names': Gertrude Stein's Mathematical Poetics Anne Brubaker 20. Modernist Literature and Modernist Mathematics I: Mathematics and Composition, with Mallarmé, Heisenberg, and Derrida Arkady Plotnitsky 21. Modernist Literature and Modernist Mathematics II: Mathematics and Event, with Mallarmé, Gödel, and Badiou Arkady Plotnitsky Part 4. Relations between Literature and Mathematics 22. King Lear, Without the Mathematics: From Reading Mathematics to Reading Mathematically Travis D. Williams 23. Newton, Burns, and a Poetics of Figure: Toward a Prehistory of Consilience Matthew Wickman 24. The Mathematics of Associationism in Laurence Sterne's Tristam Shandy Aaron Ottinger 25. Romantic Parts and Wholes, Statistical and Literary Margaret Kolb 26. 'Colours of the Dying Dolphins': Nineteenth-Century Defences of Literature and Mathematics Imogen Forbes-Macphail 27. Combinatorial Characters Andrea Henderson 28. Datelines Steven Connor 29. The Metaphor as an Equation: Ezra Pound and the Similitudes of Representation Jocelyn Rodal Part 5. Mathematics as Literature 30. Rehearsing in the Margins: Mathematical Print and Mathematical Learning in the Early Modern Period Benjamin Wardhaugh 31. Mathematics, Narrative, and Temporality Marcus Tomalin 32. A Cognitive and Quantitative Approach to Mathematical Concretization Marc Alexander.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 510.1; Mathematics -- Philosophy; Mathematics -- History; Literature -- History and criticism; Mathematics in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030554781
• Related ISBNs: 9783030554774
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