The Routledge companion to literature and science / / edited by Bruce Clarke with Manuela Rossini

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (569 p.)
• Disciplina: 801
• Soggetto topico: Literature and science; Science and the humanities
• Altri autori: ClarkeBruce <1950-> RossiniManuela
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; FIGURES; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; PART I: LITERATURES AND SCIENCES; 1 AI AND ALIFE; 2 ALCHEMY; 3 BIOLOGY; 4 CHAOS AND COMPLEXITY THEORY; 5 CHEMISTRY; 6 CLIMATE SCIENCE; 7 COGNITIVE SCIENCE; 8 CYBERNETICS; 9 ECOLOGY; 10 EVOLUTION; 11 GENETICS; 12 GEOLOGY; 13 INFORMATION THEORY; 14 MATHEMATICS; 15 MEDICINE; 16 NANOTECHNOLOGY; 17 PHYSICS; 18 PSYCHOANALYSIS; 19 SYSTEMS THEORY; 20 THERMODYNAMICS; PART II: DISCIPLINARY AND THEORETICAL APPROACHES; 21 AGRICULTURAL STUDIES; 22 ANIMAL STUDIES; 23 ART CONNECTIONS; 24 CULTURAL SCIENCE STUDIES; 25 DECONSTRUCTION ; 26 E-LITERATURE27 FEMINIST SCIENCE STUDIES; 28 GAME STUDIES; 29 HISTORY OF SCIENCE; 30 MEDIA STUDIES; 31 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE; 32 POSTHUMANISM; 33 SCIENCE FICTION; 34 SEMIOTICS; PART III: PERIODS AND CULTURES; 35 GREECE AND ROME; 36 MIDDLE AGES AND EARLY RENAISSANCE; 37 SCIENTIFIC "REVOLUTION" I: Copernicus to Boyle; 38 SCIENTIFIC "REVOLUTION" II: Newton to Laplace; 39 ROMANTICISM; 40 INDUSTRIALISM; 41 RUSSIA; 42 JAPAN; 43 MODERNISM; 44 POSTMODERNISM; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: With forty-four newly commissioned articles from an international cast of leading scholars, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science traces the network of connections among literature, science, technology, mathematics, and medicine. Divided into three main sections, this volume:links diverse literatures to scientific disciplines from Artificial Intelligence to Thermodynamicssurveys current theoretical and disciplinary approaches from Animal Studies to Semioticstraces the history and culture of literature and science from Greece
• Titolo autorizzato: The Routledge companion to literature and science
• ISBN: 1-136-95042-7; 1-136-71698-X; 1-136-95043-5; 1-282-78168-5; 1-78034-812-6; 9786612781681; 0-203-84873-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810967003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge companions.