The Refracted Muse : Literature and Optics in Early Modern Spain / / Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas
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| Autore: |
Santo-Tomas Enrique Garcia
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| Titolo: |
The Refracted Muse : Literature and Optics in Early Modern Spain / / Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas
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| Pubblicazione: | Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2017] |
| ©2017 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Disciplina: | 863.309 |
| Soggetto topico: | Spanish fiction - Classical period, 1500-1700 - History and criticism |
| Literature and science - Spain - History - 17th century | |
| Science - Spain - History - 17th century | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Baroque |
| Galileo Galilei | |
| Spain | |
| literature | |
| optics | |
| Note generali: | Translated from the Spanish. |
| Previously issued in print: 2017. | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. Writing on the firmament -- 1. Observations -- II. Galileo and his Spanish contemporaries -- 2. Foundations -- 3. Assimilations -- 4. Inscriptions -- III. The science of satire -- 5. Situations -- 6. Explorations -- IV. The refracted muse -- 7. Interventions -- 8. Reverberations -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Galileo never set foot on the Iberian Peninsula, yet, as Enrique García Santo-Tomás unfolds in The Refracted Muse, the news of his work with telescopes brought him to surprising prominence-not just among Spaniards working in the developing science of optometry but among creative writers as well. While Spain is often thought to have taken little notice of the Scientific Revolution, García Santo-Tomás tells a different story, one that reveals Golden Age Spanish literature to be in close dialogue with the New Science. Drawing on the work of writers such as Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, and Quevedo, he helps us trace the influence of science and discovery on the rapidly developing and highly playful genre of the novel. Indeed, García Santo-Tomás makes a strong case that the rise of the novel cannot be fully understood without taking into account its relationship to the scientific discoveries of the period. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Refracted Muse |
| ISBN: | 0-226-46587-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910838353003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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