Unified fields : science and literary form / Janine Rogers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rogers, Janine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science in literature.

Literary form.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Canadian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Canadian literature.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Literary form presents an important opportunity for understanding the relationship between literature and science. Through a series of close readings of poetry and prose, this book demonstrates that formal structures in literature can relate to scientific concepts through their essential interpretive functions.

Contents:

pt. 1. Formal strategies for literature and science. Literary form and science

Turtles, giants, dwarves, and pearls : the Poiesis of science and literature

pt. 2. Poetry. Beauty bare : the sonnet form, geometry, and aesthetics

Life forms : Elizabeth Bishop's "Sestina" and DNA structure

The matter of matter : the atomic sequences of Shane Rhodes and Edwin Morgan

pt. 3. Prose. Beautiful infestations : Margaret Atwood's Cat's eye, entomology, and the superorganism

Crazy love : Ronald Wright's A scientific romance in time

The grandeur in this view of life : consciousness and literary form in Ian McEwan's Saturday.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 28, 2014).

ISBN:

9780773596504

077359650X

9780773596498

0773596496

OCLC:

907558371