Reading human nature [[electronic resource] ] : literary Darwinism in theory and practice / / Joseph Carroll |
Autore | Carroll Joseph <1949-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (371 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.9336 |
Soggetto topico |
Literature and science
Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc Evolution (Biology) in literature Human behavior - Philosophy Evolutionary psychology |
ISBN |
1-4384-3524-X
1-4416-8886-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Part one: Adaptationist literary theory -- Part Two: Interpretive practice. Aestheticism, homoeroticism, and Christian guilt in The picture of Dorian Gray; the cuckoo's history: human nature in Wuthering Heights; intentional meaning in Hamlet -- Part three: Empirical literary study: an experiment in web-based research. Agonistic structure in Victorian novels: doing the math; quantifying agonistic structure in The mayor of Casterbridge -- Part four: Evolutionary intellectual history. The power of Darwin's vision; the science wars in a long view; a Darwinian revolution in the humanities. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827183903321 |
Carroll Joseph <1949->
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Remapping Reality : Chaos and Creativity in Science and Literature (Goethe - Nietzsche - Grass) / / John A. McCarthy |
Autore | McCarthy John A. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
Disciplina | 830.9 |
Collana | Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft |
Soggetto topico |
Chaotic behavior in systems in literature
Literature and science |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
94-012-0215-X
1-4237-9115-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Getting to the Bottom of Things -- PART ONE: THEORETICAL ENCIRCLEMENTS -- Chapter 1: From Matter to Mind: Revolutions Real and Conceptual -- Chapter 2: Imitating Nature - Gaining the Right Perspective -- Chapter 3: Grounding Creativity: Nietzsche and the New Universe -- Chapter 4: Eden's Aftermath: The Nature of Evil -- PART TWO: LITERARY ITERATIONS -- Chapter 5: "A Highly Complex Matter": The Spirit of the Earth, Evil, and Creativity in Faust -- Chapter 6: Zarathustra - Life on Earth -- Chapter 7: The Tin Drum : Myth and Reality, or The Eternal Return -- Epilogue: Emergence, Horizons, Continuance -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Altri titoli varianti | Chaos and Creativity in Science and Literature (Goethe - Nietzsche - Grass) |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451522703321 |
McCarthy John A.
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Remapping Reality : Chaos and Creativity in Science and Literature (Goethe - Nietzsche - Grass) / / John A. McCarthy |
Autore | McCarthy John A. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
Disciplina | 830.9 |
Collana | Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft |
Soggetto topico |
Chaotic behavior in systems in literature
Literature and science |
ISBN |
94-012-0215-X
1-4237-9115-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Getting to the Bottom of Things -- PART ONE: THEORETICAL ENCIRCLEMENTS -- Chapter 1: From Matter to Mind: Revolutions Real and Conceptual -- Chapter 2: Imitating Nature - Gaining the Right Perspective -- Chapter 3: Grounding Creativity: Nietzsche and the New Universe -- Chapter 4: Eden's Aftermath: The Nature of Evil -- PART TWO: LITERARY ITERATIONS -- Chapter 5: "A Highly Complex Matter": The Spirit of the Earth, Evil, and Creativity in Faust -- Chapter 6: Zarathustra - Life on Earth -- Chapter 7: The Tin Drum : Myth and Reality, or The Eternal Return -- Epilogue: Emergence, Horizons, Continuance -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Altri titoli varianti | Chaos and Creativity in Science and Literature (Goethe - Nietzsche - Grass) |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777648703321 |
McCarthy John A.
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Remapping Reality : Chaos and Creativity in Science and Literature (Goethe - Nietzsche - Grass) / / John A. McCarthy |
Autore | McCarthy John A (John Aloysius), <1942-2022, > |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
Disciplina | 830.9 |
Collana | Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft |
Soggetto topico |
Chaotic behavior in systems in literature
Literature and science |
ISBN |
94-012-0215-X
1-4237-9115-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Getting to the Bottom of Things -- PART ONE: THEORETICAL ENCIRCLEMENTS -- Chapter 1: From Matter to Mind: Revolutions Real and Conceptual -- Chapter 2: Imitating Nature - Gaining the Right Perspective -- Chapter 3: Grounding Creativity: Nietzsche and the New Universe -- Chapter 4: Eden's Aftermath: The Nature of Evil -- PART TWO: LITERARY ITERATIONS -- Chapter 5: "A Highly Complex Matter": The Spirit of the Earth, Evil, and Creativity in Faust -- Chapter 6: Zarathustra - Life on Earth -- Chapter 7: The Tin Drum : Myth and Reality, or The Eternal Return -- Epilogue: Emergence, Horizons, Continuance -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Altri titoli varianti | Chaos and Creativity in Science and Literature (Goethe - Nietzsche - Grass) |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910806240503321 |
McCarthy John A (John Aloysius), <1942-2022, >
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The Routledge companion to literature and science / / edited by Bruce Clarke with Manuela Rossini |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (569 p.) |
Disciplina | 801 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ClarkeBruce <1950->
RossiniManuela |
Collana | Routledge companions |
Soggetto topico |
Literature and science
Science and the humanities |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
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 | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459444603321 |
London : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
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The Routledge companion to literature and science / / edited by Bruce Clarke with Manuela Rossini |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (569 p.) |
Disciplina | 801 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ClarkeBruce <1950->
RossiniManuela |
Collana | Routledge companions |
Soggetto topico |
Literature and science
Science and the humanities |
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 | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785267203321 |
London : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
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The Routledge companion to literature and science / / edited by Bruce Clarke with Manuela Rossini |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (569 p.) |
Disciplina | 801 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ClarkeBruce <1950->
RossiniManuela |
Collana | Routledge companions |
Soggetto topico |
Literature and science
Science and the humanities |
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 | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810967003321 |
London : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
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Science and the human comedy : natural philosophy in French literature from Rabelais to Maupertuis / / Harcourt Brown |
Autore | Brown Harcourt <1900-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1976 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (245 p.) |
Disciplina | 840/.9/38 |
Collana | University of Toronto Romance Series |
Soggetto topico |
French literature - History and criticism
Literature and science |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-4426-3260-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Science and the artifact -- CHAPTER TWO. Pantagruel and health -- CHAPTER THREE. Science and the Pensées of Pascal -- CHAPTER FOUR. History, science, and the Journal des sçavans -- CHAPTER FIVE. 'Les gens de maintenant' -- CHAPTER SIX. Science and the human comedy: Voltaire -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Voltaire and British science -- CHAPTER EIGHT. From London to Lapland and Berlin -- CHAPTER NINE. 'L'homme ... tel qu'il est' -- Index -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460283003321 |
Brown Harcourt <1900->
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1976 | ||
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Science and the human comedy : natural philosophy in French literature from Rabelais to Maupertuis / / Harcourt Brown |
Autore | Brown Harcourt <1900-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1976 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (245 p.) |
Disciplina | 840/.9/38 |
Collana | University of Toronto Romance Series |
Soggetto topico |
French literature - History and criticism
Literature and science |
Soggetto genere / forma |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-4426-5098-2
1-4426-3260-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 Science and the artifact -- 2 Pantagruel and health -- 3 Science and the Pensees of Pascal -- 4 History, science, and the Journal des sçavans -- 5 'Les gens de maintenant' -- 6 Science and the human comedy: Voltaire -- 7 Voltaire and British science -- 8 From London to Lapland and Berlin -- 9 'L'homme ... tel qu'il est' -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797221103321 |
Brown Harcourt <1900->
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1976 | ||
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Science and the human comedy : natural philosophy in French literature from Rabelais to Maupertuis / / Harcourt Brown |
Autore | Brown Harcourt <1900-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1976 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (245 p.) |
Disciplina | 840/.9/38 |
Collana | University of Toronto Romance Series |
Soggetto topico |
French literature - History and criticism
Literature and science |
Soggetto genere / forma |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-4426-5098-2
1-4426-3260-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 Science and the artifact -- 2 Pantagruel and health -- 3 Science and the Pensees of Pascal -- 4 History, science, and the Journal des sçavans -- 5 'Les gens de maintenant' -- 6 Science and the human comedy: Voltaire -- 7 Voltaire and British science -- 8 From London to Lapland and Berlin -- 9 'L'homme ... tel qu'il est' -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817158903321 |
Brown Harcourt <1900->
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1976 | ||
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