The Forms of Utopia: Paradox, Labyrinth, and Recursion in the Renaissance - Tapa blanda

The Forms of Utopia (Paperback)

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A new analysis of utopia as a literary form, with recursive patterns that draw from early modern logic and mathematicsIn this ingenious and provocative book, Jenny Mann asks us to shift our understanding of utopia from its politics to its form. Beginning with Thomas Mores Utopia (1516), one of the most influential books of all time, Mann shows that utopias recursive patternsits frames, folds, knots, meanders, and turnsenable the perpetual invention of limitless artificial worlds.Mann demonstrates how paradox, labyrinth, and recursion, in the hands of More, William Shakespeare, and Margaret Cavendish, become techniques of utopian invention. Drawing on concepts from logic and mathematics, including the Liars Paradox and the conundrum of squaring the circle, to make sense of utopias impossible geometries, she offers fresh and illuminating considerations of Mores Utopia, Shakespeares The Tempest, and Cavendishs TheBlazing World, each representing a different form of utopia. These sections are framed by interludes that feature an artwork or artifactan intarsia-paneled door, a turf maze, a silver cointhat materially expresses an element of utopias puzzling structure. To study utopia, she argues, we must enter its structure and follow the disorienting paths. Utopia works by transforming enclosed spacesa book, a playinto sites of infinite possibility. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9780691283678

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