Melchanolies [sic] of knowledge
Subtitle: literature in the age of science
By: edited by Margery Arent Safir.
Contributors: Arent Safir, Margery, 1947-
Series: SUNY series, the margins of literature
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Rio, Michel -- Criticism and interpretation.; Rio, Michel -- Knowledge -- Science.; Science in literature.; Literature and science.; Scientists in literature.
Other titles: Melancholies of knowledge
Work titles: Mélancolies du savoir. English.
Description: Offering interdisciplinary criticism and methodology, Melancholies of Knowledge includes essays by scientists, social scientists, and literary critics on the work of the French novelist Michel Rio.

It provides a non-specialist's description of the most important scientific changes in the century - easily understandable and related to issues of concern in the humanities - as well as an opportunity to see how these scientific changes are being incorporated into literary discourse, into the human element outside of theory or the laboratory.

In presenting a new methodology that proposes true interdisciplinarity, Melancholies of Knowledge identifies a new class of contemporary fiction and, as a test case, provides the first serious criticism of a major contemporary French author.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-187) and index.