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1 online resource (277 pages) |
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polychrome |
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Robots, human hybrids and fictional monsters assembled from graveyard body parts by mad scientists have haunted literature for centuries. The frightening but alluring motif highlights a long and complex love affair between literature and science; an affair filled with fascination, commonalities, differences and antagonism. Over the past decades, however, the two cultures have found common ground and interest, giving a momentum to consider the complex intersections in their historical contexts. The Art of Discovery has evolved from this vantage point. Bringing together scholars of literature, na. |
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Cover; Title Page; Colophon; Contents; Introduction; Mapping, Bridging, Quilting: Tracing the Relations between Literature and Science; Thresholds and Hybrids: Between the Anthropoid Ape and the Android Machine; Post-humanism or a New Humanist Poetics?; Science, Myth and Evolving Mythologies; Influence and Adaptation: Science to Literature; Engaging the Present, Envisioning the Future: Ethical and Political Perspectives; Which Science: Mediation and Popularisation; The Languages of Science and Literature; Tracing the Seams; Works Cited; Discoveries -- Struggle, Scandal and Adaptation. |
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The Love-Hate Relationship of Literature and ScienceAndrea Battistini, University of Bologna; Two Statutes Confronting Each Other; Literature at the Service of Science: Galileo's Example; Science at the Service of Literature: Primo Levi's Example; Works Cited; Darwin's "Filthy Heraldries"; Gillan Beer, University of Cambridge; Works Cited; Scandal and Oblivion: Some Thoughts on Darwin, Oedipus and Adaptation; Holly Henry, California State University, San Bernardino; Primates, Myth and "Scandal"; Bipedalism versus Knuckle-walking; Barnacles, Mutability, and Oblivion. |
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Myth as Survival TechnologyWorks Cited; Encounters -- Borders and Crossings; Goethe's Theory of Colour: Premodern or Postmodern?; Ragnar Fjelland, University of Bergen; Newton's Theory of Light and Colour; Goethe's Alternative; Where Goethe was Right; Goethe's Conception of Science and Toulmin's Postmodernism; Works Cited; Baudelaire and the Poetics of Magnetism; Margery Vibe Skagen, University of Bergen; Animal Magnetism; Poe and Balzac: Hypnotic Revelations; Magnetic Sympathy and Imagination; Mysterious Moments of Profoundness: Sympathy and "Correspondances"; Suggestions of Heaven or Hell. |
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Suggestive MagicHypnotic Poetry; Works Cited; From Heredity of Acquired Traits to Atavism:; The Impact of Darwin on Scandinavian Literature; Eivind Tjønneland, University of Bergen; Works Cited; The Maternal Body in Sigrid Undset's Writings:; Between Scientific Object and Social Construction; Christine Hamm, University of Bergen; Undset's Critique of the Misuse of Scientific Discoveries; Undset's Effort to Come to Terms with Scientific Data; Works Cited; Modernism's Einstein:; Wyndham Lewis and the Politics of Science Popularisation; Randi Koppen, University of Bergen; Works Cited. |
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The Riddle of the RobotsJon Bing, University of Oslo; Prague, Čapek and the Golem; Frankenstein, his Monster and the Summer of 1816; Excursion: Lady Lovelace and the Analytical Machine of Charles Babbage; Alexandra Alexandrovna Exter and Aelita; Fritz Lang and Metropolis: The Riddle Explained; Robots Entering Popular Culture: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century; The Modern Robot: Isaac Asimov and the Three Laws of Robotics; Artificial Intelligence, Replicants, Cyborgs and other Family Members; Postscript: The PIN and Zamyatin; Works Cited; Leo Szilard: Immoral Science -- Moral Fiction? |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Literature and science.
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Literature and science. |
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Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Hagen, Margareth.
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Koppen, Randi.
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Skagen, Margery Vibe.
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Print version: Hagen, Margareth. Art of Discovery. Santa Barbara : Aarhus University Press, 2010 9788779347373 |
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9788779347373 electronic book |
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8779347371 electronic book |
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9788779347373 |
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8779347371 |
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9788779345010 |
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8779345018 |
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