Contemporary poetry and contemporary science [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Robert Crawford

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (251 p.)
• Disciplina: 821/.9140936
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: CrawfordRobert <1959->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• 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: These essays and poems show that poetry and science are both forms of discovery. Though they can disagree, what is most provocative and exciting is just how often poets and scientists agree. Contributors include bestselling psychiatrist Kay Redfield Jamison, astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, and poets Paul Muldoon and Simon Armitage. - ;A unique collaboration between leading poets and scientists, Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science demonstrates through its form, and through practice as well as reflection, that poetry and science can meet with productive results. Crossing between di
• Titolo autorizzato: Contemporary poetry and contemporary science
• ISBN: 1-280-75909-7; 0-19-153158-8; 1-4294-7064-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451613203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II