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Page, Joanna

 
9781552387320: Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature: Between Romanticism and Formalism
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ISBN 10 : 1552387321 ISBN 13 : 9781552387320
Editeur : University of Calgary Press, 2014

Synopsis

Creativity and Science in Argentine Literature 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 Mart'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 Mart'nez, Piglia, or Cohen.

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À propos de l'auteur

Joanna Page is a senior lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Crisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema and the co-editor of Visual Synergies in Fiction and Documentary Film from Latin America.

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Éditeur
University of Calgary Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1552387321
ISBN 13 
9781552387320
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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