Sweet science : romantic materialism and the new logics of life /

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Today we do not expect poems to carry scientifically valid information. But it was not always so. In 'Sweet Science', Amanda Jo Goldstein returns to the beginnings of the division of labor between literature and science to recover a tradition of Romantic life writing for which poetry was a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goldstein, Amanda Jo (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Temas:
Blake, William, > 1757-1827 > Criticism and interpretation.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, > 1749-1832 > Criticism and interpretation.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, > 1792-1822. > Masque of anarchy.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, > 1792-1822. > Triumph of life.
Lucretius Carus, Titus > Influence.
Blake, William, > 1757-1827
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, > 1749-1832
Lucretius Carus, Titus
Blake, William > 1757-1827
De Man, Paul > 1919-1983
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von > 1749-1832
Lucretius Carus, Titus > v94-v55
Shelley, Percy Bysshe > 1792-1822
Masque of anarchy (Shelley, Percy Bysshe)
Triumph of life (Shelley, Percy Bysshe)
1800-1899
European literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Romanticism.
Materialism in literature.
Literature and science.
Littérature européenne > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Romantisme.
Matérialisme dans la littérature.
Littérature et sciences.
romanticism (form of expression)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
European literature
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Literature and science
Materialism in literature
Romanticism
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Lucretius.
Percy Shelley.
William Blake.
biology.
empiricism.
materialism.
poetry.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Sumario:Today we do not expect poems to carry scientifically valid information. But it was not always so. In 'Sweet Science', Amanda Jo Goldstein returns to the beginnings of the division of labor between literature and science to recover a tradition of Romantic life writing for which poetry was a privileged technique of empirical inquiry. Goldstein puts apparently literary projects, such as William Blake's poetry of embryogenesis, Goethe's journals 'On Morphology', and Percy Shelley's "poetry of life," back into conversation with the openly poetic life sciences of Erasmus Darwin, J.G. Herder, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, and Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Such poetic sciences, Goldstein argues, share in reviving Lucretius's 'De rerum natura' to advance a view of biological life as neither self-organized nor autonomous, but rather dependent on the collaborative and symbolic processes that give it viable and recognizable form. They summon 'De rerum natura' for a logic of life resistant to the vitalist stress on self-authorizing power and to make a monumental case for poetry's role in the perception and communication of empirical realities. The first dedicated study of this mortal and materialist dimension of Romantic biopoetics, 'Sweet Science' opens a through-line between Enlightenment materialisms of nature and Marx's coming historical materialism
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 330 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780226458588
022645858X

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