| On Literature and Science: Essays, Reflections, Provocations Contributor(s): Coleman, Philip (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1846820715 ISBN-13: 9781846820717 Publisher: Four Courts Press OUR PRICE: $73.76 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2007 Annotation: On literature and science explores some of the ways that writers have engaged with science and technology from the early medieval period to the present. Contents include: Helen Conrad-OBriain (TCD), Chaucer, technology and the rise of science fiction in English --- John Scattergood (TCD), Horology and literature in Renaissance England --- Amanda Piesse (TCD), Bodies of knowledge and knowledge of the body in 16thcentury literature --- Andrew J. Power (TCD), Mental health and Hamlet --- Stephen Matterson (TCD), Edgar Allan Poe and the orangutan --- Darryl Jones (TCD), H.G. Wells and the imagination of disaster --- Ross Skelton (TCD), Bilogic strands in the poems of Louis MacNeice --- |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Science | History |
| Dewey: 820.931 |
| LCCN: 2008272533 |
| Physical Information: 270 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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| Publisher Description: On literature and science explores some of the ways that writers have engaged with science and technology from the early medieval period to the present. Contents include: Helen Conrad-O'Briain (TCD), Chaucer, technology and the rise of science fiction in English --- John Scattergood (TCD), Horology and literature in Renaissance England --- Amanda Piesse (TCD), Bodies of knowledge and knowledge of the body in 16thcentury literature --- Andrew J. Power (TCD), Mental health and Hamlet --- Stephen Matterson (TCD), Edgar Allan Poe and the orangutan --- Darryl Jones (TCD), H.G. Wells and the imagination of disaster --- Ross Skelton (TCD), Bilogic strands in the poems of Louis MacNeice --- ? ? ? ?Philip Coleman (TCD), Scientific research in recent American fiction --- Peter Middleton (U Southampton), Can poetry be scientific? --- Iggy McGovern (TCD), Science and poetry --- and also creative writings by Randolph Healy, Meredith Quartermain, Harry Clifton, Allen Fisher, Maurice Scully, Dylan Harris and Kit Fryatt. |