Science in Modern Poetry

Science in Modern Poetry

Author: John Holmes

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1846318092

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Over the last thirty years, more and more critics and scholars have come to recognize the significant influence of science on literature. This collection of essays focuses specifically on what poets in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have made of modern scientific developments. In these twelve essays, leading experts on modern poetry, 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, Ireland, America, and Australia.


Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England

Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England

Author: David Burchell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1351901788

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

These essays throw new light on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds examine the agency of early modern poets, playwrights, essayists, philosophers, natural philosophers and artists in remaking their culture and reforming ideas about human understanding. Analyzing the ways in which the works of such diverse writers as Shakespeare, Bacon, Hobbes, Milton, Cavendish, Boyle, Pope and Behn related to contemporary epistemological debates, these essays move us toward a better understanding of interactions between the sciences and the humanities during a seminal phase in the emergence of modern Western thought.


Between Science and Literature

Between Science and Literature

Author: Ira Livingston

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9780252072543

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Between Science and Literature introduces the fundamentals of cultural and literary theory to nonspecialists while reorienting these fields toward exciting new ideas, especially the notion of language itself as a kind of living thing. In the process, Ira Livingston draws on the work of thinkers across disciplines, from philosophers like Deleuze and Guattari to sociologists like Niklas Luhmann and biologists like Stuart Kauffmann, as well as historians, gender theorists, and science fiction writers. -- from back cover.


Science and Literature

Science and Literature

Author: Harry Raphael Garvin

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 9780838750513

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This issue explores the tensions between literature and the sciences, focusing on responses which see science as an alien ideology that threatens everything the arts hold dear, and on a more positive response that sees the sciences as providing new tools, viewpoints, and knowledge about the world.


Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science

Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science

Author: Robert Crawford

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2006-09-07

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 0199258120

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A collaboration between leading poets and scientists, this title shows through its form, and through practice, as well as reflection, that poetry and science can meet with productive results. It also shows how modes of scientific knowledge and of poetic making continue to be intertwined.


Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry

Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry

Author: Bryan Walpert

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-09-26

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1136587284

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book examines types of resistance in contemporary poetry to the authority of scientific knowledge, tracing the source of these resistances to both their literary precedents and the scientific zeitgeists that helped to produce them. Walpert argues that contemporary poetry offers a palimpsest of resistance, using as case studies the poets Alison Hawthorne Deming, Pattiann Rogers, Albert Goldbarth, and Joan Retallack to trace the recapitulation of romantic arguments (inherited from Keats, Shelly, and Coleridge, which in turn were produced in part in response to Newtonian physics), modernist arguments (inherited from Eliot and Pound, arguments influenced in part by relativity and quantum theory), and postmodernist arguments (arguments informed by post-structuralist theory, e.g. Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, with affinities to arguments for the limitations of science in the philosophy, sociology, and rhetoric of science). Some of these poems reveal the discursive ideologies of scientific languageā€”reveal, in other words, the performativity of scientific language. In doing so, these poems themselves can also be read as performative acts and, therefore, as forms of intervention rather than representation. Reading Retallack alongside science studies scholar Karen Barad, the book concludes by proposing that viewing knowledge as a form of intervention, rather than representation, offers a bridge between contemporary poetry and science.


Modern Poetry and the Tradition

Modern Poetry and the Tradition

Author: Cleanth Brooks

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2018-02-01

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1469639386

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This study presents the revolutionary thesis that English poetry and poetic theory were deflected from their richest line of development by the scientific rationalism that came with Hobbes and has continued its restrictive influence to the present day, when such poets as Yeats and Eliot have begun the reestablishment of the earlier line of development. Originally published in 1939. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.