Myth, metaphor and science / Alan Wall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wall, Alan.

Contributor:

Tudor Jones, Goronwy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphor.

Metaphor in literature.

Literature and myth.

Technical writing.

Creative writing.

Science--Language.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (102 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chester, [England] : Chester Academic Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores the way in which language is used in fiction, poetry and science. It examines the role of metaphor in structuring our thought, and questions any simplistic notion of creativity. There is an enquiry into the significance of myth for the modern writer. Why do our earliest narratives return to haunt us at the end of history? The final essays ask what it means to attempt scientific descriptions of reality in words. Can language here ever be anything more than a clumsy approximation of mathematics. The book ends with a paper written jointly by the particle physicist Goronwy Tudor

Contents:

""Front cover""; ""Title pages""; ""Copyright page""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Putting the 'I' in the middle: A Few Thoughts on the Modern Essay""; ""Burning Books""; ""The Revolution""; ""Fragmentation""; ""A Few Examples of Contemporary Fragmentation""; ""A Note on Defamiliarization""; ""The Purpose of Defamiliarization""; ""Poetry and Form""; ""Easter-Wings""; ""The Question of Rhetoric""; ""The Words""; ""A Note on Translation""; ""Metaphor""; ""The Topographic Metaphor""; ""Cliche""; ""Metaphor and Language""; ""Non-Visual Metaphors""; ""Conclusion""; ""Writing Science: Part One""

""The Explanatory Analogy""""Writing Science: Part Two""; ""The Most Beautiful Experiment - Goronwy Tudor Jones and Alan Wall""; ""The Two-Slit Experiment with Electrons""; ""Waves and Particles""; ""Classical Determinism""; ""Parenthesis on Naming""; ""Figure Credits""; ""Back Cover""

Notes:

"Including 'The most beautiful experiment' by Goronwy Tudor Jones and Alan Wall."

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781908258618

1908258616

OCLC:

881712120