Modernism, fiction and mathematics

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

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Main Author: Engelhardt, Nina
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2018, [2018]©2018
Series:Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture
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