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The Art of Discovery: Encounters in Literature and Science
Author(s): Margareth Hagen (Editor), Randi Koppen (Editor), Margery Vibe Skagen (Editor)
- Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
- Publication Date: 30 Aug. 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 275 pages
- ISBN-10: 8779345018
- ISBN-13: 9788779345010
Book Description
The Art of Discovery has evolved from this vantage point. Bringing together scholars of literature, natural sciences, and philosophy of science, the anthology spans the 19th and 20th centuries and discusses a range of different encounters. These include Goethe’s theory of colour, Darwin’s ‘filthy heraldries’, Sigrid Undset’s usage of biology, and literary responses to the first man on the moon, Baudelaire’s infatuation with magnetism, the robot as a theme in literature, and literature’s moral imperative post Hiroshima.
The anthology, by internationally renowned scholars, brings new perspectives to the existential, ethical, intellectual and metaphysical implications of the age-long love-hate relationship between the ‘two cultures’.
