{"product_id":"creativity-and-science-in-contemporary-argentine-literature-between-romanticism-and-formalism-paperback-softback-9781552387320","title":"Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature; Between Romanticism and Formalism (Paperback \/ softback) 9781552387320","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCreativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBetween Romanticism and Formalism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJoanna Page (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781552387320\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 28 February 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.7 x 15.5 x 1.8 cm, 0.438 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoanna 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 Martinez 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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 Martinez, Piglia, or Cohen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Countering Postmodern Apocalypticism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1. The Science of Literary Evolution: Between Romanticism and Formalism\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Postmodern Prometheus: innovation and Tradition in Literature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMartinez Non-Linearity, topology, turbulence, and other (Formalist) models of literary renewal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2. Allegories of Reading in an Age of Immanence and Unvertainty\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSerial polysemia: Crimes of Logic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterpretation and interpretosis in an immanent world\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiterature: the laboratory of the future\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e3. Mathematics and Creativity\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCrative contradictions and them athematics of postmodern thought\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePost-Romantic pinciples of creativity in a self-organizing universe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e4. Machines, Metaphors, and Multiplicity: Creativity beyond the Individual\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePost-Romantic writing machines\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEntropy and metaphor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion: Literature and Science, Neither One Culture Nor Two\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Bibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"University of Calgary Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619274551576,"sku":"9781552387320","price":27.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/creativity-and-science-in-contemporary-argentine-literature-between-romanticism-and-formalism-paperback-softback-9781552387320","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}