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• Title:Literary infinities : number and narrative in modern fiction / Baylee Brits.
  
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• Author/Creator:Brits, Baylee, author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
  ©2018
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PN56.N86 B75 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Numbers in literature.
  Infinite in literature.
  Fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
  Modernism (Literature)
  Mathematics in literature.
  
• Description:viii, 209 pages ; 25 cm
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781501331466 hardcover ; alkaline paper
  1501331469 hardcover ; alkaline paper
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Actual Infinities: Cantor's Proofs and Modern Fiction
  Missed Encounter
  Cantor's Transfinite
  Mallarme and Meillassoux: Fixing the Infinite
  Allegory and Enigma
  2. Aleph: Jorge Luis Borges and the Measure of Prose
  Supplanting the Symbol for the "Thing Itself: Borges's Ultraist Beginnings
  `Funes, His Memory': A Transfinite Technogenesis of Perception
  `The Library of Babel'
  `The Lottery of Babylon'
  What is a Transfinite Allegory?
  3. Lemniscate: Infinite Shapes in the Work of Samuel Beckett
  Mania for Symmetry: Molloy and the Continuous Deformation of Language
  Permutation and Division in Watt
  All Strange Away and Imagination Dead Imagine: Imagination by Numbers
  4. One: J.M. Coetzee and the Name of the Number
  `Literature in the Lap of Mathematics': The Quantification of Style
  In the Heart of the Country: Freedom and Equality
  Childhood of Jesus and Mathematical Nominalism
  Counting as One, Rather than Counting to One
  Conclusion - X: Literary Infinities after Zeno and Cantor.