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Author : Stuart J. Taylor
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031486714
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Mathematics in Postmodern American Fiction written by Stuart J. Taylor and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stuart J. Taylor
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783031486708
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Mathematics in Postmodern American Fiction written by Stuart J. Taylor and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Paula Geyh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107103444
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction written by Paula Geyh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion is an authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the key works, genres, and movements of postmodern American fiction.
Author : Patrick O'Donnell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119431719
Total Pages : 1607 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction, 2 Volumes written by Patrick O'Donnell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 1607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh perspectives and eye-opening discussions of contemporary American fiction In The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction: 1980-2020, a team of distinguished scholars delivers a focused and in-depth collection of essays on some of the most significant and influential authors and literary subjects of the last four decades. Cutting-edge entries from established and new voices discuss subjects as varied as multiculturalism, contemporary regionalisms, realism after poststructuralism, indigenous narratives, globalism, and big data in the context of American fiction from the last 40 years. The Encyclopedia provides an overview of American fiction at the turn of the millennium as well as a vision of what may come. It perfectly balances analysis, summary, and critique for an illuminating treatment of the subject matter. This collection also includes: An exciting mix of established and emerging contributors from around the world discussing central and cutting-edge topics in American fiction studies Focused, critical explorations of authors and subjects of critical importance to American fiction Topics that reflect the energies and tendencies of contemporary American fiction from the forty years between 1980 and 2020 The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction: 1980-2020 is a must-have resource for undergraduate and graduate students of American literature, English, creative writing, and fiction studies. It will also earn a place in the libraries of scholars seeking an authoritative array of contributions on both established and newer authors of contemporary fiction.
Author : Nina Engelhardt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474416252
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics written by Nina Engelhardt and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Casey Michael Henry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350064971
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book New Media and the Transformation of Postmodern American Literature written by Casey Michael Henry and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has American literature after postmodernism responded to the digital age? Drawing on insights from contemporary media theory, this is the first book to explore the explosion of new media technologies as an animating context for contemporary American literature. Casey Michael Henry examines the intertwining histories of new media forms since the 1970s and literary postmodernism and its aftermath, from William Gaddis's J R and Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho through to David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. Through these histories, the book charts the ways in which print-based postmodern writing at first resisted new mass media forms and ultimately came to respond to them.
Author : Bran Nicol
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139483110
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction written by Bran Nicol and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodern fiction presents a challenge to the reader: instead of enjoying it passively, the reader has to work to understand its meanings, to think about what fiction is, and to question their own responses. Yet this very challenge makes postmodern writing so much fun to read and rewarding to study. Unlike most introductions to postmodernism and fiction, this book places the emphasis on literature rather than theory. It introduces the most prominent British and American novelists associated with postmodernism, from the 'pioneers', Beckett, Borges and Burroughs, to important post-war writers such as Pynchon, Carter, Atwood, Morrison, Gibson, Auster, DeLillo, and Ellis. Designed for students and clearly written, this Introduction explains the preoccupations, styles and techniques that unite postmodern authors. Their work is characterized by a self-reflexive acknowledgement of its status as fiction, and by the various ways in which it challenges readers to question common-sense and commonplace assumptions about literature.
Author : Gordon Slethaug
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809318414
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (184 download)
Download or read book The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction written by Gordon Slethaug and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Hawkline Monster, Brautigan's minimalist metafictive parody of the double depicts our narcissistic view of reality. In Double or Nothing, Federman subverts the conventional double, exposing its gamelike structures and traditional views of life and text.
Author : W. Lawrence Hogue
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252033833
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Postmodern American Literature and Its Other written by W. Lawrence Hogue and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redefining postmodern American literature to include the voices of women and nonwhite writers
Author : Nina Engelhardt
Publisher : Edinburgh Critical Studies in
ISBN 13 : 9781474416238
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics written by Nina Engelhardt and published by Edinburgh Critical Studies in. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrasting 'mathematical fictions' from and about the heyday of mathematical modernism, this book relates literary engagements with mathematical modernism to the wider context of modernist critiques of Enlightenment values and postmodern reassessments of modernist patterns.
Author : John Cusatis
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438134053
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Research Guide to American Literature written by John Cusatis and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers American literature during the postwar period.
Author : Robert Tubbs
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030554783
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Mathematics written by Robert Tubbs and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook features essays written by both literary scholars and mathematicians that examine multiple facets of the connections between literature and mathematics. These connections range from mathematics and poetic meter to mathematics and modernism to mathematics as literature. Some chapters focus on a single author, such as mathematics and Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, or Charles Dickens, while others consider a mathematical topic common to two or more authors, such as squaring the circle, chaos theory, Newton’s calculus, or stochastic processes. With appeal for scholars and students in literature, mathematics, cultural history, and history of mathematics, this important volume aims to introduce the range, fertility, and complexity of the connections between mathematics, literature, and literary theory. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via [link.springer.com|http://link.springer.com/].
Author : Kirk Curnutt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108551599
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)
Download or read book American Literature in Transition, 1970–1980 written by Kirk Curnutt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Literature in Transition, 1970–1980 examines the literary developments of the twentieth-century's gaudiest decade. For a quarter century, filmmakers, musicians, and historians have returned to the era to explore the legacy of Watergate, stagflation, and Saturday Night Fever, uncovering the unique confluence of political and economic phenomena that make the period such a baffling time. Literary historians have never shown much interest in the era, however - a remarkable omission considering writers as diverse as Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Marilyn French, Adrienne Rich, Gay Talese, Norman Mailer, Alice Walker, and Octavia E. Butler were active. Over the course of twenty-one essays, contributors explore a range of controversial themes these writers tackled, from 1960s' nostalgia to feminism and the redefinition of masculinity to sexual liberation and rock 'n' roll. Other essays address New Journalism, the rise of blockbuster culture, memoir and self-help, and crime fiction - all demonstrating that the Me Decade was nothing short of mesmerizing.
Author : Robert Scholnick
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813184428
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book American Literature and Science written by Robert Scholnick and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature and science are two disciplines are two disciplines often thought to be unrelated, if not actually antagonistic. But Robert J. Scholnick points out that these areas of learning, up through the beginning of the nineteenth century, "were understood as parts of a unitary endeavor." By mid-century they had diverged, but literature and science have continued to interact, conflict, and illuminate each other. In this innovative work, twelve leaders in this emerging interdisciplinary field explore the long engagement of American writers with science and uncover science's conflicting meanings as a central dimension of the nation's conception of itself. Reaching back to the Puritan poet-minister-physician Edward Taylor, who wrote at the beginning of the scientific revolution, and forward to Thomas Pynchon, novelist of the cybernetic age, this collection of original essays contains essential work on major writers, including Franklin, Jefferson, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Twain, Hart Crane, Dos Passos, and Charles Olson. Through its exploration of the ways that American writers have found in science and technology a vital imaginative stimulus, even while resisting their destructive applications, this book points towards a reconciliation and integration within culture. An innovative look at a neglected dimension of our literary tradition, American Literature and Science stands as both a definition of the field and an invitation to others to continue and extend new modes of inquiry.
Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199862079
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book A Journey Through American Literature written by Kevin J. Hayes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spirited and lively introduction to American literature, this book acquaints readers with the key authors, works, and events in the nation's rich and ecclectic literary tradition.
Author : Christopher T. Fan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023155978X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Asian American Fiction After 1965 written by Christopher T. Fan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act loosened discriminatory restrictions, people from Northeast Asian countries such as South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and eventually China immigrated to the United States in large numbers. Highly skilled Asian immigrants flocked to professional-managerial occupations, especially in science, technology, engineering, and math. Asian American literature is now overwhelmingly defined by this generation’s children, who often struggled with parental and social expectations that they would pursue lucrative careers on their way to becoming writers. Christopher T. Fan offers a new way to understand Asian American fiction through the lens of the class and race formations that shaped its authors both in the United States and in Northeast Asia. In readings of writers including Ted Chiang, Chang-rae Lee, Ken Liu, Ling Ma, Ruth Ozeki, Kathy Wang, and Charles Yu, he examines how Asian American fiction maps the immigrant narrative of intergenerational conflict onto the “two cultures” conflict between the arts and sciences. Fan argues that the self-consciousness found in these writers’ works is a legacy of Japanese and American modernization projects that emphasized technical and scientific skills in service of rapid industrialization. He considers Asian American writers’ attraction to science fiction, the figure of the engineer and notions of the “postracial,” modernization theory and time travel, and what happens when the dream of a stable professional identity encounters the realities of deprofessionalization and proletarianization. Through a transnational and historical-materialist approach, this groundbreaking book illuminates what makes texts and authors “Asian American.”
Author : A. Robert Lee
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051839067
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Making America, Making American Literature written by A. Robert Lee and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1996 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If 1776 heralds America's Birth of the Nation, so, too, it witnesses the rise of a matching, and overlapping, American Literature. For between the 1770s and the 1820s American writing moves on from the ancestral Puritanism of New England and Virginia - though not, as yet, into the American Renaissance so strikingly called for by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Even so, the concourse of voices which arise in this period, that is between (and including) Benjamin Franklin and James Fenimore Cooper, mark both a key transitional literary generation and yet one all too easily passed over in its own imaginative right. This collection of fifteen specially commissioned essays seeks to establish new bearings, a revision of one of the key political and literary eras in American culture. Not only are Franklin and Cooper themselves carefully re-evaluated in the making of America's new literary republic, but figures like Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irving, Philip Frencau, William Cullen Bryant, the other Alexander Hamilton, and the playwrights Royall Tyler and William Dunlop. Other essays take a more inclusive perspective, whether American epistolary fiction, a first generation of American women-authored fiction, the public discourse of The Federalist Papers, the rise of the American periodical, or the founding African-American generation of Phillis Wheatley. What unites all the essays is the common assumption that the making of America was as much a matter of creating its national literature; as the making of American literature was a matter of shaping a national identity.
