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1 online resource (340 pages) |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Colophon -- Contents -- Introduction -- LITERATURE AND CHEMISTRY: ARTS AND CRAFTS OF TRANSFORMATION -- LITERATURE AND SCIENCE: RECIPROCITY AND RESPECT FOR DIFFERENCES -- LITERATURE AND CHEMISTRY: THE STATE OF THE FIELD -- CHEMISTRY AND LIFE-WRITING -- A SCIENCE WITH AN AMBIGUOUS REPUTATION -- HISTORIES OF ALCHEMY -- CHEMISTRIES OF PERSONAL INTERACTION -- AFFINITIES OF POETRY AND CHEMISTRY -- EARTH, AIR, FIRE, AND WATER versus THE PERIODIC TABLE -- LITERATURE, CHEMISTRY, AND THE SUBLIME -- WORKS CITED -- Literature and Chemical Sensitivity: Primo Levi -- PRIMO LEVI'S CHEMICAL SENSORIUM -- THE CHEMIST -- THE CHEMIST-WRITER -- THE EMPIRICIST -- "THE MNEMAGOGUES" -- THE SENSES -- OTHER SENSES -- WORKS CITED -- AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND CHEMISTRY: PRIMO LEVI AND OLIVER SACKS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CHEMISTRY OF WRITING -- THE PERIODIC TABLE -- AN ALLOY OF LITERARY GENRES -- CHEMISTRY AS BILDUNG -- THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY -- THE DOUBLE NATURE OF CHEMISTRY -- EKPHRASIS -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- WORKS CITED -- From the Literary Lives of Two Epochal Scientists: Humphry Davy and Ludwig Boltzmann -- FROM "THE LIFE OF THE SPINOSIST" TO "LIFE": HUMPHRY DAVY, CHEMIST AND POET -- THE ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY AND BRISTOL, 1799-1801 -- FROM MANUSCRIPT TO PRINTED POEM -- "LIFE" (1823) -- CONCLUSION -- WORKS CITED -- AN UNLIKELY CANDIDATE FOR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE: THE NOSTALGIC LUDWIG BOLTZMANN IN ELDORADO -- THE DESCENT OF A POLYMATH -- ENTER THE ITALIAN PHILOSOPHER AS GUIDE -- TEXTUAL NOSTALGICS -- DEATH AFTER ELDORADO -- THE UNLIKELY CANDIDATE GROPES FOR NARRATIVE -- WORKS CITED -- Literary and Cinematic Contributions to the Public Image of Chemistry: Between Celebration and Denigration -- RAYMOND QUENEAU'S "THE SONG OF STYRENE" -- INTRODUCTION -- PERCEPTIONS: VISUAL, AURAL, AND COGNITIVE -- THE FREEDOM OF TONE AND THE HUMOUR. |
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TOWARDS A RENEWED ENCYCLOPAEDISM -- THE CONTEXT -- RAYMOND QUENEAU IN 1957 -- TEXTUAL ANALYSIS -- THE METHOD OF COMPOSITION -- CONCLUSION -- WORKS CITED -- THE INVISIBLE SCIENCE? CHEMISTRY, SCIENCE FICTION, AND POPULAR CULTURE -- FUNCTIONS OF CHEMISTRY IN SCIENCE FICTION -- CHEMISTRY AND DISCOVERY IN ALASTAIR REYNOLDS'S REVELATION SPACE -- CHEMISTRY AND LIFE IN PAUL McAULEY'S THE QUIET WAR -- CHEMISTRY AND THE PROJECT OF SCIENCE IN GREG EGAN'S THE CLOCKWORK ROCKET -- WORKS CITED -- IN THE ZONE: THE STRUGATSKII BROTHERS AND THE POETICS OF POLLUTION IN RUSSIAN SCIENCE FICTION -- THE BROTHERS STRUGATSKII AND VERNADSKII'S BIOSPHERE -- THE INHABITED ISLAND -- ROADSIDE PICNIC -- CONCLUSION -- WORKS CITED -- Histories of Alchemy -- ALCHEMISTS AND ALCHEMY IN ITALIAN LITERATURE FROM ITS ORIGINS TO GALILEO GALILEI -- THE MIDDLE AGES: FROM THE FIRST TUSCAN POETS TO DANTE AND CECCO D'ASCOLI -- THE RENAISSANCE -- FROM LEONARDO TO ARIOSTO -- THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: GALILEO GALILEI -- BETWEEN SCIENCE AND LITERATURE -- WORKS CITED -- ON THE ROLE OF ALCHEMY AND CHEMISTRY IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE FROM PETER THE GREAT TO THE POST-SOVIET PERIOD -- WORKS CITED -- THE LITERARY DISTORTIONS OF ALCHEMY -- NATHALIEL HAWTHORNE'S THE SCARLET LETTER -- GUSTAV MEYRINK'S THE ANGEL OF THE WESTERN WINDOW -- MARGUERITE YOURCENAR'S THE ABYSS -- CONCLUSIONS -- WORKS CITED -- Demonic, Divine or Mystical: Chemistries of Personal Interaction -- DEMONIC AFFINITIES: ON THE CHEMICAL ANALOGY IN GOETHE'S DIE WAHLVERWANDTSCHAFTEN -- THE OXYMORONIC NATURE OF THE TERM "WAHLVERWANDTSCHAFT" -- GOETHE'S USE OF THE TERM WAHLVERWANDTSCHAFT -- NECESSITY AND FREEDOM -- THE TWO COUPLES COMPARED -- THE ELEMENT OF REPULSION -- AN UNCANNY ANALOGY -- THE MONSTROUS EVIL -- THE NOVEL AS TRAGEDY -- WORKS CITED -- STRINDBERG, CHEMISTRY, AND THE DIVINE -- STRINDBERG'S CHEMICAL TEXTS AND HOW TO READ THEM. |
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CHEMISTS AND CHEMISTRY IN THE FICTION OF AUGUST STRINDBERG -- WORKS CITED -- THE MYSTICAL POWER OF CHEMISTRY -- A BLIND SPOT IN DAG SOLSTAD'S FIRST NOVEL, IRR! GRØNT! -- INTRODUCTION -- THE PLOT -- DESTROYING THE MYTH OF COLUMBUS -- KARSTEN AND JOHN -- CHEMICAL RESEARCHERS AND ROLE MODELS -- CHEMISTRY AS RELIGION -- HOMONCULUS -- WORKS CITED -- Poetics of Chemistry and Alchemy -- "THE PHOSPHORESCENCE OF PUTREFACTION AND THE SCENT OF THUNDERSTORMS": APPROACHING A BAUDELAIREAN METAPHOR BY WAY OF LITERATURE AND CHEMISTRY -- PHOSPHORESCENCE: NATURAL PHENOMENA WITH SUPERNATURAL CONNOTATIONS -- THE ISOLATION OF PHOSPHORUS -- AN EXPERIMENT ON PHOSPHORESCENCE IN THE AIR-PUMP -- PHOSPHORUS THERAPIES FOR PHOSPHORESCENT BRAINS -- PHOSPHORIC NERVE FLUID FLOWING INTO NINETEENTH-CENTURY FICTION -- BAUDELAIRE'S (PSEUDO)SCIENTIFIC SUPERNATURALISM -- "THE PHOSPHORESCENCE OF PUTREFACTION AND THE SCENT OF THUNDERSTORMS" -- ENTRANCING OPPOSITES -- RETURN TO ALCHEMY -- CONJUNCTIONS OF EARTH AND FIRE: MÉLANCOLIQUE ET ARDENT -- WORKS CITED -- PASTERNAK'S WASSERMANN TEST -- CONTEMPORARY INTERDISCIPLINARY ACTIVITY -- "THE WASSERMANN TEST" -- MY SISTER LIFE -- METONYMICAL CHAINS AND SEITENKETTEN -- PASTERNAK'S LITERARY WASSERMANN TEST -- "DER STEIN DER WEISEN IST BLAU": ALCHEMISTIC THOUGHT IN KONRAD BAYER'S LITERARY WORK -- DER STEIN DER WEISEN: A KEY TO INSIGHT AND LINGUISTIC "READYMADE" -- WITTGENSTEIN -- HERMETICAL GEOGRAPHY -- ABSOLUTE PRESENCE -- WORKS CITED -- CONTRIBUTORS. |
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Chemistry in literature.
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Literature and science -- Denmark.
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Chemistry in literature |
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Literature and science |
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Denmark |
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Skagens, Margery.
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Print version: Hagen, Margareth. Literature and Chemistry. Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, ©2014 9788771241747 |
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9788771241754 |
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8771241752 |
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9788771246278 (electronic bk.) |
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8771246274 (electronic bk.) |
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9788771241747 |
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