Literary Infinities: Number and Narrative in Modern Fiction

by Baylee Brits

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501352598
• ISBN13: 9781501352591
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"