Télécharger le livre :  Reading Breath in Literature
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This open access book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, geographical and cultural environments. Breath, for all its ubiquity in literary texts, has received little attention as a...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2018-10-29
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre :  The Poetry of Knowledge and the 'Two Cultures'
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This book argues that poetry is compatible with systematic knowledge including science, and indeed inherent in it; it also discusses particular poems that engage with such knowledge, including those of Lucretius, Vergil, and Vita Sackville-West. The book argues that...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2018-05-16
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary Physics Plays
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This book analyzes recent physics plays, arguing that their enaction of concepts from the sciences they discuss alters the nature of the decisions made by the characters, changing the ethical judgements that might be cast on them. Recent physics plays regularly alter...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2018-04-12
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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58,01
Télécharger le livre :  Staging Science
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This book considers scientific performances across two centuries, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Performances include demonstrations of technologies, experiments that look like theatre, theatre that looks like science, tourist representations and...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2016-06-09
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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