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Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature

Joanna Page
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Argentina
Argentine fiction
Argentine literary theory
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formalism
literary evolution
literary tradition
literature and crisis
Postmodern literary theory
postmodern thought
romanticism
science and literature

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  • ISBN 9781552387320
  • Weight: 438g
  • Dimensions: 155 x 227mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Feb 2014
  • Publisher: University of Calgary Press
  • Publication City/Country: CA
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description
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 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.

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 Martinez, Piglia, or Cohen.
About Joanna Page
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 (2009) and the co-editor of Visual Synergies in Fiction and Documentary Film from Latin America (2009).

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