Lost worlds [&] and mad elephants : literature, science and technology 1700-1990

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Lost worlds [&] and mad elephants : literature, science and technology 1700-1990

Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo:	International Conference on Science, Technology and Literature (Outro)
Outros Autores:	Schenkel, Elmar (Editor), Welz, Stefan (Editor)
Formato:	Anais de Congresso Livro
Idioma:	German English
Publicado em:	Glienicke/Berlin ; Cambridge, Mass. : Galda und Wilch, 1999
coleção:	Leipzig explorations in literature and culture 2
Assuntos:	Englisch Literatur Technik <Motiv> Naturwissenschaften <Motiv> Geschichte 1700-1997 / Kongress
Conteúdos/Exemplares:	21 registros

1. On Mummies, Balloons and Moving Houses : Jane (Webb) Loudon`s "The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century" (1827)

2. Ants and Analogy in Natural History. Henry William Bates` "The Naturalist on the River Amazons" (1863) and Antonia S. Byatt`s "Angels and Insects" (1992)

3. GUT and QED, and Other "P2C2E" : "Processes Too Complicated to Explain" and Rushdieęs New Physics

4. H.G. Wells and A.K. Tolstoy

5. Of Bumps and Brains : E.A. Poe and Phrenology

6. Natural Science and Western Art : A Bibliographical Mapping

7. H.G. Wells and Mikhail Bulgakov : Aspects of Reception in "The Island of Dr. Moreau", "Rock`s Eggs", and "The Dogęs Heart"

8. The Fallible Magus : Reflections of Faustus in the Image of the Engineer in Athol Fugard, David Dabydeen and Wilson Harris

9. "Poetical Cabbalas and Philosophical Worlds" : Science and Literature in Margaret Cavendish`s "Blazing World"

10. Flann OęBrienęs Joyful Science

11. Chesterton and the Two Cultures

12. Wheels of Fortune or Vicious Circles The (R)evolutionary Stories of Stephen Jay Gould

13. Scales and Ladders : Natural History and Map Media in Conan Doyleęs "The Lost World" and Wilson Harrisęs "The Secret Ladder"

14. Scientific Views from Exotic Outposts. Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad on Technology

15. Constructionism in the Sciences, in Literature and in Literary Theory

16. Television Viruses in Contemporary English Novels

17. "The First Men in the Moon" and the "Corporative State"

18. Melancholy Elephants and Virgin Machines : Technological Imagery and Mechanical Lacunae from Industrial Novels to Scientific Romances

19. Invisibility : Strategies of Encounter

20. "God Inside the Stone" : On the Radiance of Physical, Psychical and Mystical Energies in Pound

21. Hallucination and Vision