{"product_id":"literary-infinities-number-and-narrative-in-modern-fiction-paperback","title":"Literary Infinities: Number and Narrative in Modern Fiction - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBaylee Brits\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday, we have forgotten that mathematics was once aligned with the arts, rather than with the sciences. \u003ci\u003eLiterary Infinities\u003c\/i\u003e 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 James Joyce, Italo Svevo, Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee. She begins by recuperating the difficult and rebellious German mathematician, Georg Cantor, for the broader artistic, cultural and philosophical project of modernism. Cantor revolutionized the mathematics of the infinite, creating reverberations across the numerical sciences, philosophy, religion and literary modernism. This 'modernist' infinity is shown to undergird and shape key innovations in narrative form, creating a bridge between the mathematical and the literary, presentation and representation, formalism and the tactile imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBaylee Brits\u003c\/b\u003e is a research fellow at the Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia and teaches English Literature and Media Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eAesthetics After Finitude\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) and \u003ci\u003eThe Covert Plant\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), both anthologies on contemporary intersections between science, literature and art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 30, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42117003903111,"sku":"9781501352591","price":86.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/7b05edfd8a15fdc134df94df5138bb40.webp?v=1732520533","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/literary-infinities-number-and-narrative-in-modern-fiction-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}