Literature and science
By: edited by E.S. Shaffer.
Contributors: Shaffer, E. S.
Series: Comparative criticism -- 13
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Literature and science.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Literature and science. Literary Chinese as a scientific language / Joseph Needham and Kenneth Robinson; title: The names of things not generally known : scientists, translators and terminology in the age of Newton / L.G. Kelly; title: The poet's senses : G.B. Marino's epic poem L'Adone and the new science / Maurice Slawinski; title: Science and supernaturalism : Sir David Brewster and Sir Walter Scott / Frederick Burwick; title: Helmholtz, Tyndall, Gerard Manley Hopkins / Gillian Beer; title: The hermeneutics of extinction / Joel Black; title: Beckett and science : Watt and the quantum universe / Angela Montgomery; title: pt. 2. Literature and translation. L'Experience de traduire : Verlaine's Femmes/Hombres / Alistair Elliot; title: Notes on the theory of literary history / Gyórgy Lukács; title: Bacon among the literati / Brian Vickers; title: A new discipline? : essays in literature and science / Roy Porter; title: Bibliographies.