The art of discovery : encounters in literature and science / edited by Marareth Hagen, Randi Koppen and Margery Vibe Skagen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hagen, Margareth.

Koppen, Randi.

Skagen, Margery Vibe.

Series:

Acta Jutlandica.

Acta Jutlandica. Humanities series ; 2010/2.

Acta Jutlandia, 0065-1354

Humanities series, 0901-0556 ; 2010/2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and science.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 p.)

Place of Publication:

Arhus, Denmark : Aarhus University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Robots, human hybrids and fictional monsters assembled from graveyard body parts by mad scientists have haunted literature for centuries. The frightening but alluring motif highlights a long and complex love affair between literature and science; an affair filled with fascination, commonalities, differences and antagonism. Over the past decades, however, the two cultures have found common ground and interest, giving a momentum to consider the complex intersections in their historical contexts.The Art of Discovery has evolved from this vantage point. Bringing together scholars of literature,

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Colophon; Contents; Introduction; Mapping, Bridging, Quilting: Tracing the Relations between Literature and Science; Thresholds and Hybrids: Between the Anthropoid Ape and the Android Machine; Post-humanism or a New Humanist Poetics?; Science, Myth and Evolving Mythologies; Influence and Adaptation: Science to Literature; Engaging the Present, Envisioning the Future: Ethical and Political Perspectives; Which Science: Mediation and Popularisation; The Languages of Science and Literature; Tracing the Seams; Works Cited; Discoveries - Struggle, Scandal and Adaptation

The Love-Hate Relationship of Literature and Science Andrea Battistini, University of Bologna; Two Statutes Confronting Each Other; Literature at the Service of Science: Galileo's Example; Science at the Service of Literature: Primo Levi's Example; Works Cited; Darwin's "Filthy Heraldries"; Gillan Beer, University of Cambridge; Works Cited; Scandal and Oblivion: Some Thoughts on Darwin, Oedipus and Adaptation; Holly Henry, California State University, San Bernardino; Primates, Myth and "Scandal"; Bipedalism versus Knuckle-walking; Barnacles, Mutability, and Oblivion

Myth as Survival Technology Works Cited; Encounters - Borders and Crossings; Goethe's Theory of Colour: Premodern or Postmodern?; Ragnar Fjelland, University of Bergen; Newton's Theory of Light and Colour; Goethe's Alternative; Where Goethe was Right; Goethe's Conception of Science and Toulmin's Postmodernism; Works Cited; Baudelaire and the Poetics of Magnetism; Margery Vibe Skagen, University of Bergen; Animal Magnetism; Poe and Balzac: Hypnotic Revelations; Magnetic Sympathy and Imagination; Mysterious Moments of Profoundness: Sympathy and "Correspondences"; Suggestions of Heaven or Hell

Suggestive Magic Hypnotic Poetry; Works Cited; From Heredity of Acquired Traits to Atavism:; The Impact of Darwin on Scandinavian Literature; Eivind Tjønneland, University of Bergen; Works Cited; The Maternal Body in Sigrid Undset's Writings:; Between Scientific Object and Social Construction; Christine Hamm, University of Bergen; Undset's Critique of the Misuse of Scientific Discoveries; Undset's Effort to Come to Terms with Scientific Data; Works Cited; Modernism's Einstein:; Wyndham Lewis and the Politics of Science Popularisation; Randi Koppen, University of Bergen; Works Cited

The Riddle of the Robots Jon Bing, University of Oslo; Prague, Čapek and the Golem; Frankenstein, his Monster and the Summer of 1816; Excursion: Lady Lovelace and the Analytical Machine of Charles Babbage; Alexandra Alexandrovna Exter and Aelita; Fritz Lang and Metropolis: The Riddle Explained; Robots Entering Popular Culture: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century; The Modern Robot: Isaac Asimov and the Three Laws of Robotics; Artificial Intelligence, Replicants, Cyborgs and other Family Members; Postscript: The PIN and Zamyatin; Works Cited; Leo Szilard: Immoral Science - Moral Fiction?

Roger Strand, University of Bergen

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9788779347373

8779347371

OCLC:

812254062