Screen LibraryLiterary infinities : number and narrative in modern fiction /
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Bloomsbury Academic,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | viii, 209 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781501331466 (hardcover : alkaline paper) : 1501331469 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | PN56 |
| CLC: | I106.4 |
| Call Number: | I106.4/B862 |
| Contents: |
Machine generated contents note: Actual Infinities: Cantor's Proofs and Modern Fiction -- The Missed Encounter -- Cantor's Transfinite -- Mallarme and Meillassoux: Fixing the Infinite -- Allegory and Enigma -- The 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? -- The Lemniscate: Infinite Shapes in the Work of Samuel Beckett -- A Mania |