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Hans Magnus Enzensberger a teorém bezespornosti.

Authors :
Mizerová, Nikola
Source :
Word & Sense / Slovo a Smysl. 2020, Issue 33, p85-99. 15p.
Publication Year :
2020

Abstract

This paper deals with the issue of interdisciplinarity in literature, tracing the mathematical influences -- and particularly those of the incompleteness theorems by Kurt Gödel -- on the literary works of Hans Magnus Enzensberger. Our attention is focused on Enzensberger's publications in mathematics, on his poem Hommage à Gödel, and his montage epos The Sinking of the Titanic. This paper submits a new, interdisciplinary interpretation of the poem Hommage à Gödel as a kind of art manifesto, and comes to the conclusion that the reason Enzensberger finds the incompleteness theorems so interesting is that they offer a scientific basis for undecidable problems and paradoxes. He applies Gödel's theorems to literature, where they enable a creative, playful oscillation between two positions or aspects of an undecidable problem and self-reference in literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
Czech
ISSN :
12147915
Issue :
33
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Word & Sense / Slovo a Smysl
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
144352321
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.14712/23366680.2020.1.4