Comparative Criticism: Volume 13, Literature and Science (Comparative Criticism, Series Number 13)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 2/13/1992
EAN 9780521411165, ISBN10: 0521411165
Hardcover, 348 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
Language: English
Topics covered in this volume include literary Chinese as a language for science, the history and principles of scientific translation in Europe, the theatrical panorama in the 19th century and its roots in optical theory and experiment, and an alternative perspective on Gerard Manley Hopkins.
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Frontispiece
Editor's introduction
The Sphinx and the Muses
the third culture
Part I. Literature and Science
1. Literary Chinese as a scientific language. A selection from the concluding volume of Science and Civilisation in China. With illustrations Joseph Needham and Kenneth Robinson
2. 'The names of things not generally known …'
scientists, translators and terminology in the age of Newton L. G. Kelly
3. The poet's senses
G. B. Marino's epic poem L'Adone and the new science Maurice Slawinski
4. Science and supernaturalism
Sir David Brewster and Sir Walter Scott. With illustrations Frederick Burwick
5. Helmholtz, Tyndall, Gerard Manley Hopkins
leaps of the prepared imagination Gillian Beer
6. The hermeneutics of extinction
denial and discovery in scientific literature Joel Black
7. Beckett and science
Watt and the quantum universe Angela Montgomery
Part II. Literature and Translation
8. L'Expérience de traduire
Verlaine's Femmes/Hombres Alistair Elliot
9. Notes on the Theory of Literary History Translated with an introduction by Ian Fairley György Lukács
Part III. Essay Reviews
10. Bacon among the literati
science and language Brian Vickers
11. A new discipline? Essays in 'literature and science' Roy Porter
Bibliographies
Books and periodicals received Andrew Milne
Bibliography of Comparative Literature in Britain and Ireland 1988 Joseph Th. Leerssen
Special bibliography
Technical translation in England, 1640–1800 L. G. Kelly.