Joshua Wilner (Prof. at the University of New York) Wordsworth and Mandelbrot on the Coast of Britain

Veranstalter: Lehrstuhl für Engl. Literaturwissenschaft und Bamberg Graduate School of Literary, Cultural and Media Studies

This talk brings together two, on the face of it, very different meditations on the western coast of Britain: the Ascent of Snowdon in the final book of Wordsworth's Prelude, and Benoit Mandelbrot's path-breaking paper, "How Long is the Coast of Britain?" (1967), which led the way to The Fractal Geometry of Nature (1976). It seeks to suggest that there is a relationship, both structural and historical, between the way Worthworth'S autobiographical poem unsettles its own teleologial design and the particular way fractal geometry - a geometry of nature, as Mandelbrot emphasizes - unsettles Euclidean space.

Kontakt:

Houswitschka, Christoph Telefon ++49 (0)951 863 2172, Fax ++49 (0)951 863 5172, E-Mail: christoph.houswitschka@uni-bamberg.de

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