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Bearing Across

Studies in Literature and Science

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Bearing Across

Studies in Literature and Science

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Highly original and insightful, Bearing Across explores the complex interrelationships between American literature and science in the 20th century. Steven Carter begins this unprecedented work by examining the influence that science and scientific thinking has had on the creative processes of several postmodern writers. Focusing on the literary works of Charles Olson, Robert Duncan and Jack Spicer, he investigates the philosophical impact that field and quantum theories have had on these imaginative writers. The second section of the book features radical re-readings of six of Hemingway's best-known short stories as it explores the features of an epistemological model that not only inform literature and science but art and philosophy as well. Carter's interdisciplinary approach allows him to offer a unique perspective that is sure to intrigue scholars seeking an innovative approach to understanding modern literature.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Acknowledgments
Chapter 4 Field, Quanta, Chaos: Fields of Spacetime and the I in Charles Olson's The Maximus Poems; Mr. Duncan Meets Mr. Schrödinger; Jack Spicer's Quantum Poetics; Reversible Syntax vs. Irreversible Time
Chapter 5 Complementarity: Complementarity Across the Disciplines; Ernest Hemingway and the Included Middle; Hemingway's Canary for None: "A Canary for One"; Krebs's Zero Summer: "Soldier's Home"; The Odd Couples: "The Sea Change" and "Hills Like White Elepha

Product details

Published Sep 06 2002
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 212
ISBN 9780761823186
Imprint University Press of America
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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