Indecomposable Continuum
Topology and the Arts in Japan
$55.84
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
23 March 2027
Summary
Indecomposable Continuum
Locating the diffusion of mathematical concepts into modern literature, experimental music, and critical theory in twentieth-century Japan
In Indecomposable Continuum, Steven C. Ridgely explores where theoretical mathematics meets culture in twentieth-century Japan, tracing how concepts from relativity theory and topology migrated into Japanese art and literature. Through readings of avant-garde fiction, experimental sound practices, and pos…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781517920845 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1517920841 |
| Author: | Steven C. Ridgely |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Imprint: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 23 March 2027 |
| Weight: | 284g |
| Dimensions: | 11mm x 140mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
“An impressive work of careful scholarship and a lucid examination of the importance of topology to twentieth-century Japanese cultural production. Full of surprising and brilliant connections, the contribution that Indecomposable Continuum represents is ground-breaking, innovative, and most welcome in a growing field of scholarship interested in linking science and humanities.” –Charles Exley, author of Satō Haruo and Modern Japanese Literature
Steven C. Ridgely
Steven C. Ridgely is professor of modern Japanese literature in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is author of Japanese Counterculture: The Antiestablishment Art of Terayama Shūji, also published by the University of Minnesota Press.
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