On Literature and Science Essays, Reflections, Provocations

by Coleman, Philip

• ISBN13: 9781846820717
• ISBN10: 1846820715
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-27
• Publisher: Four Courts Press

Summary

On literature and science explores some of the ways that writers have engaged with science and technology from the early medieval period to the present. Contents include: Helen Conrad-OBriain (TCD), Chaucer, technology and the rise of science fiction in English --- John Scattergood (TCD), Horology and literature in Renaissance England --- Amanda Piesse (TCD), Bodies of knowledge and knowledge of the body in 16thcentury literature --- Andrew J. Power (TCD), Mental health and Hamlet --- Stephen Matterson (TCD), Edgar Allan Poe and the orangutan --- Darryl Jones (TCD), H.G. Wells and the imagination of disaster --- Ross Skelton (TCD), Bilogic strands in the poems of Louis MacNeice ---~Philip Coleman (TCD), Scientific research in recent American fiction --- Peter Middleton (U Southampton), Can poetry be scientific? --- Iggy McGovern (TCD), Science and poetry --- and also creative writings by Randolph Healy, Meredith Quartermain, Harry Clifton, Allen Fisher, Maurice Scully, Dylan Harris an

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Chaucer, technology and the rise of science fiction in English	p. 27
A pocketful of death: horology and literature in Renaissance England	p. 43
Bodies of knowledge and knowledge of the body in sixteenth-century literature	p. 62
Broken machines and tainted minds: mental health and Hamlet	p. 77
The hippopotamus prince; or, the perils of visiting England in 1850	p. 96
Edgar Allan Poe and the orang-utan	p. 115
H. G. Wells and the imagination of disaster	p. 129
Surrealism, psychiatry, and the science of the irrational	p. 148
Logic in literature: bilogic strands in the poetry of Louis MacNeice	p. 162
'I'm an experiment': reflections on science in American short fiction	p. 173
Can poetry be scientific?	p. 190
Science and poetry: not so different?	p. 211
The Wandering Wood	p. 223
Matter 15: Water and air words evaporate	p. 237
Techne	p. 239
Slow Drag	p. 241
Snow	p. 251
From C++	p. 252
Dorade	p. 257
Notes on Contributors	p. 259
Index	p. 263
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