Science in modern poetry : new directions / edited by John Holmes.
- Date:
- 2012
- Books
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Publication/Creation
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2012.
Physical description
xi, 237 pages ; 24 cm.
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Contents
Science and contemporary poetry : cross-cultural soundings. The function of antagonism : Miroslav Holub and Roald Hoffmann / Helen Small ; Cutting and pasting : language writing and molecular biology / Peter Middleton ; The poetics of consilience : Edward O. Wilson and A.R. Ammons / John Barnie ; Poetry, science and the contemporary university / Robert Crawford -- Science in modernist poetry : appropriations and interrogations. 'Strange synthetic perfumes' : investigating scientific diction in twentieth-century poetry / Michael H. Whitworth ; The human animal : biological tropes in interwar poetry / Tim Armstrong ; William Empson, ants and aliens / Katy Price ; Ezra Pould and the materiality of the fourth dimension / Ian F.A. Bell -- Darwinian dialogues : four modern poets. 'Accidental variations' : Darwinian traces in Yeats's poetry / Rónán McDonald ; Making the past wake : anthropological survivals in Hardy's poetry / Andrew Radford ; Reading Bishop reading Darwin / Jonathan Ellis ; From Bergson to Darwin : evolutionary biology in the poetry of Judith Wright ; Afterword / Bruce Clarke.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-229) and indexes.
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Location Status History of MedicineZJP.AA9-10Open shelves
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- 1846318092
- 9781846318092