Science, Literature, and Film in the His
✍ Jerry Hoeg, Kevin S. Larsen
📂 Library
📅 2006
🌐 English
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Science, Literature, and Film in the Hispanic World
✍ Scribed by Jerry Hoeg Ph. D. Arizona State University, Kevin S. Larsen Ph. D. Harvard University (eds.)
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- Palgrave Macmillan US
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- 2006
- Tongue
- English
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- 257
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✦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
An Introduction to Sciencepoetry: A New Beginning....Pages 1-10
Three Theories, Three Writers, One Idea: Science and the Nation in the Brazilian Literature of Joaquim de Souzândrade, Euclides da Cunha, and Augusto dos Anjos....Pages 11-27
The Aura of Science in Fantastic Tales by Leopoldo Lugones, Macedonio Fernández, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Jorge Luis Borges....Pages 29-48
Jorge Luis Borges and Early Quantum Labyrinths....Pages 49-73
Carlos Fuentes’s Evolution Toward Ecological Awareness in His Essays and Narratives....Pages 75-85
Life Signs: Ricardo Piglia’s Cyborgs....Pages 87-107
On Science and Mexican Nationalism: The Politics of Identity in Jorge Volpi’s In Search of Klingsor....Pages 109-128
Disease as a Dis/Organizing Principle in Nineteenth-Century Spain: Benito Pérez Galdós, Leopoldo Alas, and Emilia Pardo Bazán....Pages 129-149
Ido del Sagrario’s Alimentary Madness....Pages 151-173
Pío Baroja’s Parascientific Epistemology....Pages 175-191
“Aquel Madrid”: Science, Literature, and Art in the Edad de Plata....Pages 193-219
Representations of Humans and Technology: The Construction of Identity in Miguel Bardem, Pedro Almodóvar, and Alejandro Amenábar....Pages 221-243
Back Matter....Pages 244-250
✦ Subjects
Postcolonial/World Literature; Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Film History; Latin American Culture; European Literature
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