Unified fields : science and literary form / Janine Rogers

Author:: Rogers, Janine
Additional Titles:: Science and literary form
Published:: Montreal & Kingston ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.
Physical Description:: xix, 235 pages ; 23 cm

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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.

Summary:

Through a series of close readings of poetry and prose, Unified Fields demonstrates that formal structures in literature can relate to scientific concepts through their essential interpretive functions.--Provided by publisher

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Criticism, interpretation, etc

ISBN:

9780773544222 (bound)
0773544224 (bound)
9780773544239 (pbk.)
0773544232 (pbk.)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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