dc.contributor.author	Page, Joanna	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2014-02-21T16:51:46Z
dc.date.available	2014-02-24T08:00:16Z
dc.date.issued	2014
dc.description	Series: Latin American and Caribbean Series; 10	en_US
dc.description.abstract	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 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.	en_US
dc.description.embargoterms	2014-02-24	en_US
dc.description.refereed	Yes	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Page, J. "Creativity and science in contemporary Argentine literature: between Romanticism and Formalism". Latin American and Caribbean Series; 10. University of Calgary Press, Calgary, Alberta, 2014.	eng
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/34553
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-55238-771-9
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/49946
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Calgary Press	eng
dc.publisher.url	http://press.ucalgary.ca/	eng
dc.rights	Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Argentine literature—20th century—Themes, motives—History and criticism	eng
dc.subject	Martínez, Guillermo, 1962- —Criticism and interpretation	eng
dc.subject	Piglia, Ricardo—Criticism and interpretation	eng
dc.subject	Cohen, Marcelo— Criticism and interpretation	eng
dc.subject	Science in literature	eng
dc.subject	Technology in literature	eng
dc.subject	Mathematics in literature	eng
dc.subject	Creative ability in literature	eng
dc.subject	Romanticism—Argentina	eng
dc.subject	Formalism (Literature)—Argentina	eng
dc.title	Creativity and science in contemporary Argentine literature: between Romanticism and Formalism	eng
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Creativity and science in contemporary Argentine literature: between Romanticism and Formalism

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