Creativity and science in contemporary Argentine literature : between Romanticism and Formalism / Joanna Page.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Page, Joanna, 1974- author.

Series:

Latin American and Caribbean series ; no. 10.

Latin American and Caribbean series ; no. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Martínez, Guillermo, 1962---Criticism and interpretation.

Martínez, Guillermo.

Piglia, Ricardo--Criticism and interpretation.

Piglia, Ricardo.

Cohen, Marcelo--Criticism and interpretation.

Cohen, Marcelo.

Argentine literature--20th century--Themes, motives--History and criticism.

Argentine literature.

Science in literature.

Technology in literature.

Mathematics in literature.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Romanticism--Argentina.

Romanticism.

Formalism (Literature)--Argentina.

Formalism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2014.

Place of Publication:

Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press : University of Calgary, Louisianain American Research Centre, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With a burgeoning academic interest in Latin American science fiction and cyberfiction and in representations of science and technology in Latin American literature and cinema, this book adds new understanding to the growing body of interdisciplinary work on the relationship between literature and science in postmodern culture.Joanna Page examines how contemporary fiction and literary theory in Argentina consistently employ theories and models from mathematics and science to probe the nature of innovation and evolution in literature. Theories of incompleteness, uncertainty, and chaos are often mobilized in European and North American literary and philosophical texts as metaphors for the inadequacy of our epistemological tools to probe the world's complexity. However, in recent Argentine fiction, these generalizations are put to very different uses: to map out the potential for artistic creativity and regeneration in times of crisis. Page focuses on texts by contemporary Argentine writers Ricardo Piglia, Guillermo Marti´nez and Marcelo Cohen, which draw on theories of formal systems, chaos, emergence, and complexity to counter proclamations of the end of philosophy or the exhaustion of literature in the postmodern era.This book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how newness and creativity have been theorized, tracing often unexpected relationships between thinkers such as Nietzsche, Deleuze, and the Russian Formalists. It is also the first time that a major study in English has been published on the work of Martínez, Piglia, or Cohen.

Contents:

Introduction: Countering Postmodern Apocalypticism

1 1. The Science of Literary Evolution: Between Romanticism and Formalism

2. Allegories of Reading in an Age of Immanence and Uncertainty

3. Mathematics and Creativity

4. Machines, Metaphors, and Multiplicity: Creativity beyond the Individual

Conclusion: Literature and Science, Neither One Culture nor Two.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781552387726

1552387720

9781552387320

1552387321

9781552387719

1552387712

OCLC:

876861087