The Metaphysics of Insect Life, and Other EssaysHamilton Books:Rowman & Littlefield, 1995 - 104 Seiten Scholarly essays dealing with scientific and cultural theory in the post modernist world through the prism of music, literature and language with a focus on the natural world and its creative interpreters. Among the literary figures discussed are Apuleius, Shakespeare, Kafka, Muir, Jimenez, Machado, Vallejo and Chenier. |
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A.R. Wallace abstract Ahab Ahab's already ancient André Chénier animal Apuleius Apuleius's argues artistic Benjamin Constant Big Bang Blake butterfly Cambridge century chapters chopos conception critic crucial culture Cupid and Psyche cycle D.H. Lawrence Darwin dialectic edited Edwin Muir elements Essays eternal evolution evolutionary fable final Finnegans Wake fondo de aire four fourfold fourth Golden Ass Greek Gregor's Harmondsworth heavens helium-4 Hermès human Ibid imago insect intellectual Ishmael James Joyce Juan Ramón Jiménez Kafka's Kloocke language larva literary London Machado mariposa mathematical Melville Melville's metamorphosis metaphysical mind Moby-Dick modern moral Nabokov natural selection novel Oxford palabra Paris perfection poem poet poet's poetry Political Justice politique Pollin quadruple quarter quaternal Queequeg Reiman Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's significance soul species spirit story structure surpasses symbol symmetry tale theory thought threefold tradition transformation translation transmutation universe Vallejo vision W.B. Yeats Wallace's Walter whale William Godwin writing