Conceptual Mathematics and Literature

Toward a Deep Reading of Texts and Minds

Yair Neuman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

188 Seiten

2020 | xii, 175pp
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-44236-8 (ISBN)

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The old practices of interpretation have been exhausted, and the humanities and social sciences are facing a crisis. Is there a way out of the labyrinth of reading? In this book, Professor Neuman presents a challenging approach to interpreting texts and reading literature through the spectacles of conceptual mathematics. This approach strives to avoid the simplicity of a quantitative approach to the analysis of literature as well as both the relativistic and the ideological dangers facing a qualitative reading of a text. The approach is introduced in a rigorous and accessible manner and woven with insights gained from various fields. Taking us on a challenging journey from Ovid’s Metamorphoses to Nick Cave’s The Death of Bunny Munro, the book shows how we may gain a deeper understanding of literature and the aesthetic experience of reading.

Professor Yair Neuman (b. 1968) is the author of numerous papers and six academic books. He has been a visiting professor at various universities, such as Oxford, Toronto and MIT, and holds a full professorship at the Department of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

Dedication

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

List of Greek Letters

1. Introduction: On the difficulty of reading

2. Symmetries and literature, or how the eel popped out of the tap

3. "Why is a raven like a writing desk?": On forgetting and similarities

4. Maps of identity: From Kafka's Metamorphosis to Borges' cartographers

5. Perspectives and transformations: From Rashomon to The Death of Bunny Munro

6. Hide and Seek: On the reflective novel

7. Everything must change: From Rabbit, Run to The Kreutzer Sonata

8. On dimensionality, orthogonal morphisms and the naughty turd

9. Discussion: Toward a deep reading of texts and minds

References

Author index

Subject index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.01.2021
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Mathematics in the Arts and Humanities ; 2
Zusatzinfo	44 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	442 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
ISBN-10	90-04-44236-7 / 9004442367
ISBN-13	978-90-04-44236-8 / 9789004442368
Zustand	Neuware