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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828500303321

Titolo

Contemporary poetry and contemporary science / / edited by Robert Crawford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-383-03995-X

1-280-75909-7

0-19-153158-8

1-4294-7064-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Altri autori (Persone)

CrawfordRobert <1959->

Disciplina

821/.9140936

Soggetti

Science in literature

English poetry - Scottish authors - History and criticism

Scottish poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2006.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-226) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Notes on Contributors; INTRODUCTION; RAMPAGE, OR SCIENCE IN POETRY; 'AS ABOVE'; POETRY AND VIRTUAL REALITIES; 'GRIMOIRE'; SPIRIT MACHINES: THE HUMAN AND THE COMPUTATIONAL; 'BIOLOGY'; TESTAMENT AND CONFESSIONS OF AN INFORMATIONIST; 'THE WORKING SELF'; A SCIENCE OF BELONGING: POETRY AS ECOLOGY; 'STEINAR UNDIR STEINAHLITHUM'; MODELLING THE UNIVERSE: POETRY, SCIENCE, AND THE ART OF METAPHOR; 'CIRCADIAN'; ASTRONOMY AND POETRY; 'A FISTFUL OF FORAMINIFERA'; THE ACT OF THE MIND: THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS IN THE POETRY OF JORIE GRAHAM AND LESLIE SCALAPINO; 'ONCE I LOOKED INTO YOUR EYES'

THE ART OF WIT AND THE CAMBRIDGE SCIENCE PARK'THE ORGAN BATH'; CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY POETRY: PERSPECTIVES ON MOOD DISORDERS; AFTERWORD; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A collaboration between leading poets and scientists, this title shows through its form, and through practice, as well as reflection, that poetry



and science can meet with productive results. It also shows how modes of scientific knowledge and of poetic making continue to be intertwined.