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Signs of science : literature, science, and Spanish modernity since 1868 /

"Signs of Science: Literature, Science and Spanish Modernity since 1868 traces how Spanish culture represented scientific activity from the mid-nineteenth century onward. The book combines the global perspective afforded by historical narrative with detailed rhetorical analyses of images of sci...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pratt, Dale J., 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, ©2001.
Colección:Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; v. 22.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "One Short Sentence": The Spanish Reception of Darwinism
  • Pride and Natural Theology
  • The Introduction of Darwinism
  • Darwinism as Image
  • Decorative Science, Pedants, and Spanish Realism
  • Realists and Positivists
  • Reliable and Unreliable Representatives of Science
  • Scientific Spokespersons in Spanish Realism
  • Images of Science in La Regenta
  • Science, Faith, and Reference
  • Ramon y Cajal and Biological Tropology
  • Faith in Words
  • Metaphysics and Modernity
  • "Perspectivas tan vastas": "Scientific" Images of Science
  • Metaphors and Science
  • The Poetics of Scientific Popularization
  • Cajal's Scientific Rhetoric
  • The Scientific Value of Anthropomorphism
  • Rhetoric and Progress
  • The Tragicomedy of Science in 1898
  • Sublimity and Modern Epistemology
  • Science and Love (Again) in Galdos
  • Unamuno and Comical Science
  • Baroja and Tragic Science
  • Mecanopolis
  • "Muy Siglo XX": Science and Culture
  • Ortega and "lo moderno"
  • Ortega and Scientific Images
  • Ortega and Evolution
  • Ortega and Relativity
  • A Scientific Humanist
  • Lain's Synthesis: History and Medicine
  • The Silent Time: Franco and Science
  • An Unscientific Solution.