Game Theory and Postwar American Literature

by Michael Wainwright

Book Overview

If game theory, the mathematical simulation of rational decision-making first axiomatically established by the Hungarian-born American mathematician John von Neumann, is to prove worthy of literary hermeneutics, then critics must be able to apply its models to texts written without a working knowledge of von Neumann's discipline in mind. Reading such iconic novels as Fahrenheit 451, In Cold Blood, and Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye from the perspective of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349888117
• ISBN13: 9781349888115
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.7"