| Description |
vi, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The devils of positivism / Edward Davenport -- Literature and medicine : why should the physician read ... or write? / Charles Anderson -- Science, discourse, and literature : the role-rule of metaphor in science / James J. Bono -- Contemporary cosmology and narrative theory / Eric Charles White -- Eighteenth-century poetry represents moments of scientific discovery : appropriation and generic transformation / Mark L. Greenberg -- Blake, Priestley, and the "gnostic moment" / Stuart Peterfreund -- Romantic drama : from optics to illusion / Frederick Burwick -- Self-reflexive metaphors in Maxwell's demon and Shannon's choice : finding the passages / N. Katherine Hayles |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Critical theory.
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Literature and science.
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Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.
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Science in literature.
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| Author |
Peterfreund, Stuart.
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| LC no. |
89033905 |
| ISBN |
1555530583 (alk. paper) |
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