Autore	Schleifer Ronald
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xvii, 277 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	809/.9112
Soggetto topico	Modernism (Literature) Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism Literature, Modern - 19th century - History and criticism Consumption (Economics) - History - 20th century Consumption (Economics) - History - 19th century Civilization, Modern - 20th century Civilization, Modern - 19th century Literature and history Literature and science Time in literature
ISBN	1-107-11806-9 1-280-15895-6 0-511-11798-1 0-511-01803-7 0-511-15429-1 0-511-48529-8 0-511-30364-5 0-511-04867-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction: Post-Enlightenment Modernism and the experience of time -- ; pt. I. Post-Enlightenment Apprehensions. ; 1. The Enlightenment, abundance, and postmodernity. ; 2. Temporal allegories: George Eliot, Walter Benjamin, and the redemption of time. ; 3. The second Industrial Revolution: history, knowledge, and subjectivity -- ; pt. II. Logics of Abundance. ; 4. The natural history of time: mathematics and meaning in Einstein and Russell. ; 5. Analogy and example: Heisenberg, linguistic negation, and the language of quantum physics. ; 6. The global aesthetics of genre: Mikhail Bakhtin and the borders of modernity.
Altri titoli varianti	Modernism & Time
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910450024103321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (349 p.)
Disciplina	809/.933561
Collana	Experimental Practices
Soggetto topico	Literature and science Life in literature Human body in literature Science in literature Scientific literature - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	90-04-31207-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Preliminary Material / Stefan Herbrechter and Elisabeth Friis -- Narrating(−)Life – In Lieu of an Introduction / Stefan Herbrechter -- From Lives / David Wagner -- In my Core I have the Strange Impression that I don’t Belong to the Human Species: Clarice Lispector’s Água viva as Life Writing? / Elisabeth Friis -- Species Encounters: O. Butler Meets Haraway Meets Deleuze and Guattari / Tom Idema -- Solid-State Fiction: J.G. Ballard and the Crystallization of Life / Moritz Ingwersen -- Dissonance, Data, and dna: Aesthetics, Biopolitics and Transgenic Music in Richard Powers’ Orfeo / Cristina Iuli -- “Chromosomal Cuties”, “Fembots”, “Chatty Cyber Trio” or “Cantankerous Clones”? Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Teknolust / Tanja Nusser -- Submarine Experiments with Human Lives by Christoph Ransmayr – A Waterman Narrates / Manuela Rossini -- In Toxicating Languages of Bioinformatic Circulation: Poetics and Other “Smallwork” in The Flame Alphabet / Laura Shackelford -- Life beyond ‘Critique’: Murakami after Latour / Jeff Wallace -- Aporias of Survival: Kafka’s Alien Incursion / Dominik Zechner -- The Atlas of Man (If by Man We Also Mean Woman) / Steve Tomasula -- Linear Time and Revolutionary Time: Humans, Apes, and Temporality in Scientific and Literary Narratives / Amelie Björck -- Ecolinguistic Activism: How and Why to Rite / Angela Rawlings -- Death Writing – Toward a Bestiary of the Biological Real / Dorion Sagan -- Experimenting with Bones / Marianne Sommer -- The Sponge Diver or Bodies on the Seabed / Amalie Smith -- Index / Stefan Herbrechter and Elisabeth Friis.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910465862603321

Autore	Prickett Stephen
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (viii, 281 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	808
Soggetto topico	Narration (Rhetoric) - History Literature and science Religion and literature
ISBN	1-107-12527-8 1-280-41955-5 0-511-17630-9 0-511-04222-1 0-511-15708-8 0-511-32952-0 0-511-61345-8 0-511-04513-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Machine generated contents note: 1 Postmodernism, grand narratives and just-so stories -- Postmodernism and grand narratives -- Just-so stories -- Narrative and irony -- Language, culture and reality -- 2 Newton and Kissinger: Science as irony? -- Said, Kissinger and Newton -- Revolutions and paradigms -- Models of reality -- Ambiguity and irony -- 3 Learning to say 'I': Literature and subjectivity -- Interior and exterior worlds -- The idea of literature -- The ideal of the fragment -- Two kinds of truth? -- 4 Reconstructing religion: Fragmentation, typology -- and symbolism -- From religion to religions -- Religions of nature and of the heart -- Millenarian fragments and organic wholes -- The aesthetics of irony: Keble and Rossetti -- 5 The ache in the missing limb: Language, truth and -- presence -- Coleridge: The language of the Bible -- Newman: The physiognomy of development -- Polanyi: The origins of meaning -- Steiner, Derrida and Hart: Presence and absence -- 6 Twentieth-century fundamentalisms: Theology, truth -- and irony -- Rorty: Language and reality -- Postmodernism and poetic language: Religion as aesthetics -- Logos and logothete: Reading reality -- 7 Science and religion: Language, metaphor and -- consilience -- Etching with universal acid -- Language as change -- A rebirth of images -- The fabric of the universe -- Concluding conversational postscript: The tomb -- of Napoleon.
Altri titoli varianti	Narrative, Religion & Science
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910450020003321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2020]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
Disciplina	809.9336
Collana	Palgrave Handbooks of Literature and Science
Soggetto topico	Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism Literature and science Literature, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism
ISBN	3-030-48244-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	1. Introduction -- 2. “Mediating the Moon: Ferdinand Kriwet’s Apollo Mission”, Kurt Beal -- 3. “Writing the Elements at the End of the World: Varlam Shalamov and Primo Levi”, Anindita Banerjee -- 4. “The Aesthetic Textuality of Oil”, Brent Ryan Bellamy -- 5. “Literature and Energy”, Jordan B. Kinder and Imre Szeman -- 6. “Triangulate: Literature and the Sciences Mediated by Computing Machines”, Yves Citton -- 7. “Behaviorism and Literary Culture”, Scott Selisker -- 8. “I’m Dying To!: Biopolitics, Suicide Plots, and The Ecstasy of Withdrawal”, Dana Seitler -- 9. Science, Literature, and the Work of the Imagination”, Bishnupriya Ghosh -- 10. “Edith Wharton's Microscopist and the Science of Language”, Emily Coit -- 11. “Reading Generously: Scientific Criticism, Scientific Charity, and the Matter of Evidence”, Todd Carmody -- 12. “Literary Studies in a Transdisciplinary Research Project: Genetic Privacy and the Case of Henrietta Lacks”, Jay Clayton and Claire Sisco King -- 13. “Incantatory Fictions and Golden Age Nostalgia: Futurist Practices in Contemporary Science Fiction”, Rebecca Wilbanks -- 14. “Reading Science: SF and the Uses of Literature”, Amy C. Chambers and Lisa Garforth -- 15. “Linguistic Relativity and Cryptographic Translation in Samuel Delany’s Babel-17”, Joseph Fitzpatrick -- 16. “Autopoiesis between Literature and Science: Maturana, Varela, Cervantes”, Avery Slater -- 17. “Listening to Pandemics: Sonic Histories and the Biology of Emergence”, Robert Peckham -- 18. To Feel an Equation: Physiological Aesthetics, Modern Physics, and the Poetry of Jay Wright”, Steven Meyer -- 19. Max Ritvo’s Precision Poetry”, Lara Choksey -- 20. New Physics, New Faust: Faustian Bargains in Physics before the Atomic Bomb”, Jenni G. Halpin -- 21. “The Matter of In-Vitro Meat: Speculative Genres of Future Life”, Coleman Nye -- 22. “Bodies Made and Owned: Rewriting Life in Science and Fiction”, Sherryl Vint -- 23. “The Sciences of Mind and Fictional Pharmaceuticals in White Noise and The Corrections”, Natalie Roxburgh -- 24. “Eugenic Aesthetics: Literature as Evolutionary Instrument in the Early Twentieth Century”, Kyla Schuller -- 25. “Angry Optimism: Climate Disaster and Restoration in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Alternate Futures”, Everett Hamner -- 26. “Oil and Energy Infrastructures in Science Fiction Short Stories”, Chris Pak -- 27. “Biology at the Border of Area X: The Significance of Skin in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy”, Sofia Ahlberg -- 28. “Overlapping Agencies: The Collision of Cancer, Consumers, and Corporations in Richard Powers’s Gain”, Jeff Gonzalez -- 29. “‘Golden Dust’ in the Wind: Genetics, Contagion, and Early Twentieth-Century American Theatre”, Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr -- 30. “The Art and Science of Form: Muriel Rukeyser, Charles Olson and F. O. Matthiessen at Mid-century”, S.H. Daw -- 31. “Racial Science and the Neo-Victorian Novel”, Josie Gill -- 32. “W.E.B. Du Bois’s Neurological Modernity: I.Q., Afropessimism, Genre”, Michael Collins -- 33. “Graphic Bombs: Scientific Knowledge and the Manhattan Project in Comic Books”, Lindsay Michael Banco -- 34. “‘The Path of Most Resistance’: Surgeon X and the Graphic Estrangement of Antibiosis”, Lorenzo Servitje -- 35. “The Automation of Affect: Robots and the Domestic Sphere in Sinophone Cinema”, Nathaniel Isaacson -- 36. “Superman Holey Weenie and the Sick Man of Asia”, Carlos Rojas -- 37. “Modeling Long Novels: Network Analysis and A Brief History of Seven Killings”, Lindsay Thomas.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910483476403321