Forming common ground for literature and science.
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English Pages [256] Year 2014
Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
PART ONE: FORMAL STRATEGIES FOR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE
1 Literary Form and Science
2 Turtles, Giants, Dwarves, and Pearls: The Poiesis of Science and Literature
PART TWO: POETRY
3 Beauty Bare: The Sonnet Form, Geometry, and Aesthetics Janine Rogers with Matthew Chiasson
4 Life Forms: Elizabeth Bishop's "Sestina" and DNA Structure
5 The Matter of Matter: The Atomic Sequences of Shane Rhodes and Edwin Morgan
PART THREE: PROSE
6 Beautiful Infestations: Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye, Entomology, and the Superorganism
7 Crazy Love: Ronald Wright's A Scientific Romance in Time
8 The Grandeur in This View of Life: Consciousness and Literary Form in Ian McEwan's Saturday
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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