| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 237 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Poetry & -- ; v. 4
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Poetry &-- ; v. 4.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-229) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Science and contemporary poetry : cross-cultural soundings. The function of antagonism : Miroslav Holub and Roald Hoffmann / Helen Small ; Cutting and pasting : language writing and molecular biology / Peter Middleton ; The poetics of consilience : Edward O. Wilson and A.R. Ammons / John Barnie ; Poetry, science and the contemporary university / Robert Crawford -- Science in modernist poetry : appropriations and interrogations. 'Strange synthetic perfumes' : investigating scientific diction in twentieth-century poetry / Michael H. Whitworth ; The human animal : biological tropes in interwar poetry / Tim Armstrong ; William Empson, ants and aliens / Katy Price ; Ezra Pould and the materiality of the fourth dimension / Ian F.A. Bell -- Darwinian dialogues : four modern poets. 'Accidental variations' : Darwinian traces in Yeats's poetry / Rónán McDonald ; Making the past wake : anthropological survivals in Hardy's poetry / Andrew Radford ; Reading Bishop reading Darwin / Jonathan Ellis ; From Bergson to Darwin : evolutionary biology in the poetry of Judith Wright ; Afterword / Bruce Clarke. |
| Summary |
Leading experts on modern poetry and on literature and science explore how poets have used scientific language in their poems how poetry can offer new perspectives on science, and how the 'Two Cultures' can and have come together in the work of poets from Britain and Ireland, America and Australia. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Poetry -- History and criticism.
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Poetry. |
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Poetry, Modern -- 20th century.
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Poetry, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Visual poetry -- History and criticism.
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Visual poetry. |
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Literature and science.
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Literature and science. |
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Science in literature.
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Science in literature. |
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1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Holmes, John, 1973- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Science in modern poetry. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2012 (OCoLC)788213273 |
| ISBN |
9781846317743 (electronic book) |
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1846317746 (electronic book) |
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9781781388341 (ebook) |
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1781388342 (ebook) |
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9781846318092 |
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1846318092 |
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