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The Enchantress of Numbers and the Magic Noose of Poetry: Literature, Mathematics, and Mysticism in the Nineteenth Century
Ist Teil von
Journal of language, literature and culture (Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association), 2013-12, Vol.60 (3), p.138-156
Ort / Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
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Taylor & Francis
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This article examines the relationship between poetry and mathematics in nineteenth-century thought, particularly in relation to the notion of the world as a text, utterance, program, or formula created by God. In the works of writers and mathematicians as diverse as Coleridge, Hopkins, Lovelace, and Babbage, poetry and mathematics are frequently conceptualized in terms of one another, or envisaged as unified in the context of the world as Divine Logos. Furthermore, the idea of the world as a text or formula which theoretically could be deciphered often translates into an ambition to incarnate language or mathematics into reality itself through providing a 'uniting link' (Lovelace) between the material and symbolic worlds.