Author: Edgar Allan PoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Marginalia. Eureka
Author: Edgar Allan PoeMarginalia. Eureka. Bibliography (p. [355]-379)
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Author: Edgar Allan PoeMarginalia. Eureka Bibliography of the writings of Edgar A. Poe (p. [355]-379)
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Author: Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe, Eureka, and Scientific Imagination
Author: David N. StamosPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 143846391X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Explores the science and creative process behind Poes cosmological treatise. In 1848, almost a year and a half before Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of forty, his book Eureka was published. In it, he weaved together his scientific speculations about the universe with his own literary theory, theology, and philosophy of science. Although Poe himself considered it to be his magnum opus, Eureka has mostly been overlooked or underappreciated, sometimes even to the point of being thought an elaborate hoax. Remarkably, however, in Eureka Poe anticipated at least nine major theories and developments in twentieth-century science, including the Big Bang theory, multiverse theory, and the solution to Olbers paradox. In this bookthe first devoted specifically to Poes science sideDavid N. Stamos, a philosopher of science, combines scientific background with analysis of Poes life and work to highlight the creative and scientific achievements of this text. He examines Poes literary theory, theology, and intellectual development, and then compares Poes understanding of science with that of scientists and philosophers from his own time to the present. Next, Stamos pieces together and clarifies Poes theory of scientific imagination, which he then attempts to update and defend by providing numerous case studies of eureka moments in modern science and by seeking insights from comparative biography and psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and evolution. Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka, and Scientific Imagination is the most comprehensive treatment of Eureka that has yet been published. It is staggeringly thorough in its analysis of Poes book, but it also shows how Poes theories of cosmogony and cosmology ramify into his fiction and poetry, especially the tales of ratiocination. Stamos takes Eureka seriously, and he does so with the empirical undergirding of vast amounts of scientific scholarship and literary criticism. James M. Hutchisson, author of Poe
Marginalia. Eureka
Author: Edgar Allan PoeThe Case and the Canon
Author: Alessandra CalanchiPublisher: V&R unipress GmbH
ISBN: 3899716817
Category : Canon (Literature)
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The concept of a constant reformulation of the canon due to the notion of singularity or irreducibility of the case can be applied in both scientific and literary fields. In this volume, dynamics of interconnections between the case and the canon are analysed by scholars belonging to different disciplines such as physics, medicine, biology, psychoanalysis, and literature. Particular attention has been given to the science of detection since the techniques of investigation are based on the scientific acquisition of evidence and often imply a scientific (abductive) process. The book is divided into two sections: Part I concentrates mainly on literary contributions and psychological issues, while part II concentrates on scientific enquiries. The contributions have been selected according to two main guidelines: The first covers anomalies, discontinuities, metaphors between science and literature. The second focus lies on the case in crime fiction: The scientist as detective and the detective as scientist.
Kafka's Rhetoric
Author: Clayton KoelbPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501745964
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
In the first book to study Franz Kafka from the perspective of modern rhetorical theory, Clayton Koelb explores such questions as how Kafka understood the reading process, how he thematized the problematic of reading, and how his highly distinctive style relates to what Koelb describes as the "passion of reading."
The Birth-mark
Author: Susan HowePublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819562630
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A stimulating examination of early American literature
Marginalia. Eureka
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780461664676
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Birth-mark: Essays
Author: Susan HowePublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 081122466X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Susan Howe's classic groundbreaking exploration of early American literature. In this classic, groundbreaking exploration of early American literature, Susan Howe reads our intellectual inheritance as a series of civil wars, where each text is a wilderness in which a strange lawless author confronts interpreters and editors eager for settlement. Howe approaches Anne Hutchinson, Mary Rowlandson, Cotton Mather, Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville and Emily Dickinson as a fellow writer—her insights, fierce and original, are rooted in her seminal textural scholarship in examination of their editorial histories of landmark works. In the process, Howe uproots settled institutionalized roles of men and women as well as of poetry and prose—and of poetry and prose. The Birth-mark, first published in 1993, now joins the New Directions canon of a dozen Susan Howe titles.