Science and Literature in Italian Culture
From Dante to Calvino
Published on 30. October 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-1-900755-84-9 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of original essays by leading specialists from Britain, North America and Italy explores the relationship between literature and science in Italian culture. Encompassing a variety of authors and topics across four broad periods - medieval, Renaissance, Enlightenment to Positivism, and Twentieth Century - the volume presents previously unexplored connections between the discourses of literature and science, and offers a variety of new critical readings. Topics considered include the nature, scope and significance of science in the literary output of major figures; the relationship between specific genres and scientific and philosophical contexts; and the reception and transmission of science in literary texts and of literature in scientific works.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leeds
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
port
ISBN-13
978-1-900755-84-9 (9781900755849)
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Pierpaolo Antonello is University Lecturer in Italian in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John's College. He has published essays on Italo Calvino, Eugenio Montale, Daniele Del Giudice, F. T. Marinetti and the Italian Avant-Garde. He is also working on contemporary French philosophy, in particular on Rene Girard, Michel Serres and Guy Debord, on whom he recently edited three volumes. Simon A. Gilson is Lecturer in Italian at the University of Warwick. He has worked extensively on literature and science with reference to Dante, and has published articles on medieval optics, magic and the reception of Dante in the Renaissance.