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Author : Allen Thiher
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826263469
Author : Honoré Balzac
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0819567973
First English translation of a classic gothic novel
Author : Michael White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Communication in science
ISBN : 0099273241
White's thesis is that the greatest advances in science come about through the stress of rivalry, whether between individual scientists, groups of scientists, institutions or even international communities of scientists. Not in this book do we have the thunderbolt of divine inspiration, or the placid, sterile and rather dull world in which it is popularly imagined the scientist lives: for White, great scientific advancements often find their origin and progression into the wider world through the very human battles for supremacy among the experts in any particular field, battles which can be born of jealousy, pettiness and simple personality clashes, as well as more noble instincts. The book deals with eight instances in the history of science and technology which changed the world, all of which have acute rivalry at their heart: Newton and Leibniz, Lavoisier and Priestley, Darwin and Wallace, Edison and Tesla, the race for the Atom Bomb, Crick and Watson, the Space Race and Gates and Ellison.
Author : Manon Mathias
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198735397
The author offers the first study of vision in the works of George Sand. He argues that, rather than rejecting reality in favour of the ideal, he integrates physical observation with internal forms of seeing such as the imagination and visionary insights.
Author : Michael White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015049517603
Rivalry is a key feature of scientific endeavour. This is an examination of eight instances in the history of science and technology that changed the world. They all illustrate various forms of rivalry - between individuals, institutions, even nations - and to what extent it played a pivotal role.
Author : Finn Fordham,Rita Sakr Rita Sakr
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042032903
The essays of this volume show how Joyce’s work engaged with the many upheavals and revolutions within the French nineteenth-century novel and its contexts. They delve into the complexities of this engagement, tracing its twists and turns, and reemerge with fascinating and rich discoveries. The contributors explore Joyce’s explicit and implicit responses to Alexandre Dumas, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo and Émile Zola and, of course, Flaubert. Drawing from the wide range of Joyce’s writings - Dubliners, A Portrait., Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and his life, letters, and essays - they resituate Joyce’s relation to France, the novel, and the nineteenth century.
Author : Allen Thiher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015060894774
Allen Thiher demonstrates that major modernists were not only concerned with the sciences, but they also were influenced by them. He argues that there are direct relations between science and the formal shape of fiction developed by some of the most important modernists.
Author : George Griffith
Publisher : eStar Books
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612108537
George Griffith's classic novel follows newlyweds Zaidie Rettick and Lord Redgrave on their post-nuptial journey in Space…
Author : Sarah C. Alexander
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822981886
The Victorians are known for their commitment to materialism, evidenced by the dominance of empiricism in the sciences and realism in fiction. Yet there were other strains of thinking during the period in the physical sciences, social sciences, and literature that privileged the spaces between the material and immaterial. This book examines how the emerging language of the “imponderable” helped Victorian writers and physicists make sense of new experiences of modernity. As Sarah Alexander argues, while Victorian physicists were theorizing ether, energy and entropy, and non-Euclidean space and atom theories, writers such as Charles Dickens, William Morris, and Joseph Conrad used concepts of the imponderable to explore key issues of capitalism, imperialism, and social unrest.
Author : Maurice Maeterlinck
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780791472743
A new translation of one of Maeterlinck’s four great nature essays.
Author : Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781438114026
Presents a collection of critical essays about Kafka's The metamorphosis.
Author : S. J. Kincaid
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062093011
"Insignia expertly combines humor with a disarming and highly realistic view of the future. The characters are real, funny, and memorable. You won't be able to put this book down."—Veronica Roth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divergent and Insurgent The earth is in the middle of WWIII in Insignia, the first entry in S. J. Kincaid's fast-paced sci-fi adventure trilogy perfect for fans of Ender's Game. The planet's natural resources are almost gone, and war is being fought to control the assets of the solar system. The enemy is winning. The salvation may be Tom Raines. Tom doesn't seem like a hero. He's a short fourteen-year-old with bad skin. But he has the virtual-reality gaming skills that make him a phenom behind the controls of the battle drones. As a new member of the Intrasolar Forces, Tom's life completely changes. Suddenly, he's someone important. He has new opportunities, friends, and a shot at having a girlfriend. But there's a price to pay. . . .
Author : Fabiola López-Durán
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781477314982
As Latin American elites strove to modernize their cities at the turn of the twentieth century, they eagerly adopted the eugenic theory that improvements to the physical environment would lead to improvements in the human race. Based on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of the “inheritance of acquired characteristics,” this strain of eugenics empowered a utopian project that made race, gender, class, and the built environment the critical instruments of modernity and progress. Through a transnational and interdisciplinary lens, Eugenics in the Garden reveals how eugenics, fueled by a fear of social degeneration in France, spread from the realms of medical science to architecture and urban planning, becoming a critical instrument in the crafting of modernity in the new Latin world. Journeying back and forth between France, Brazil, and Argentina, Fabiola López-Durán uncovers the complicity of physicians and architects on both sides of the Atlantic, who participated in a global strategy of social engineering, legitimized by the authority of science. In doing so, she reveals the ideological trajectory of one of the most celebrated architects of the twentieth century, Le Corbusier, who deployed architecture in what he saw as the perfecting and whitening of man. The first in-depth interrogation of eugenics’ influence on the construction of the modern built environment, Eugenics in the Garden convincingly demonstrates that race was the main tool in the geopolitics of space, and that racism was, and remains, an ideology of progress.
Author : Knut Stene-Johansen,Frederik Tygstrup
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789042029439
At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries seeks to encourage and promote cutting edge interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary projects and inquiry. By bringing people together from differing context, disciplines, professions, and vocations, the aim is to engage in conversations that are innovative, imaginative, and creative interactive. --
Author : Richard Mathews
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136785542
Using a broad definition of fantasy to include myth, folklore, legend and fairy tale, this survey of the genre will entice as well as inform any student interested in the mysterious, mystical or magical. Beloved authors like J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Morris and Robert E. Howard are examined closely.
