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Nervous Fictions
\"The brain contains ten thousand cells,\" wrote the poet Matthew
Prior in 1718, \"in each some active fancy dwells.\" In the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, just as scientists began to
better understand the workings of the nerves, the nervous system
became the site for a series of elaborate fantasies. The pineal
gland is transformed into a throne for the sovereign soul. Animal
spirits march the nerves like parading soldiers. An internal
archivist searches through cerebral impressions to locate certain
memories. An anatomist discovers that the brain of a fashionable
man is stuffed full of beautiful clothes and billet-doux. A
hypochondriac worries that his own brain will be disassembled like
a watch. A sentimentalist sees the entire world as a giant nervous
system comprising sympathetic spectators.
Nervous Fictions is the first account of the
Enlightenment origins of neuroscience and the \"active fancies\" it
generated. By surveying the work of scientists (Willis, Newton,
Cheyne), philosophers (Descartes, Cavendish, Locke), satirists
(Swift, Pope), and novelists (Haywood, Fielding, Sterne), Keiser
shows how attempts to understand the brain's relationship to the
mind produced in turn new literary forms. Early brain anatomists
turned to tropes to explicate psyche and cerebrum, just as poets
and novelists found themselves exploring new kinds of mental and
physical interiority. In this respect, literary language became a
tool to aid scientific investigation, while science spurred
literary invention.
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The black Maria : poems
\"The Black Maria investigates African diasporic histories, the consequences of racism within American culture, and the question of human identity. Central to this project is a desire to recognize the lives of Eritrean refugees who have been made invisible by years of immigration crisis, refugee status, exile, and resulting statelessness\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Paradise Notebooks
In The Paradise
Notebooks , Richard J. Nevle and Steven
Nightingale take us across the spectacular Sierra Nevada mountain
range on a journey illuminated by incandescent poetry and
fascinating fact.
Over the course of twenty-one pairs of short essays, Nevle and
Nightingale contemplate the natural phenomena found in the Sierra
Nevada. From granite to aspen, to fire, to a rare, endemic species
of butterfly, these essay pairs explore the natural history and
mystical wonder of each element with a balanced and captivating
touch. As they weave in vignettes from their ninety-mile
backpacking trip across the range, Nevle and Nightingale powerfully
reconceive the Sierra Nevada as both earthly matter and
transcendental offering, letting us into a reality in which nature
holds just as much spiritual importance as it does physical.
In a time of rapid environmental degradation, The Paradise
Notebooks offers a way forward-a whole-minded, learned, loving
attention to place that rekindles our joyful relationship with the
living world.
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The poetry of knowledge and the 'two cultures'
This book argues that poetry is compatible with systematic knowledge including science, and indeed inherent in it; it also discusses particular poems that engage with such knowledge, including those of Lucretius, Vergil, and Vita Sackville-West. The book argues that there are substantial similarities between knowledge-making and poetry-making, for example in their being shaped by language, including metaphor, and in their seeking unity in the world, under the impulse of eros and pleasure. The book also discusses some of the obstacles to a \"poetry of knowledge,\" including scientific objectivism, the Kantian tradition in philosophy, and the separation of the \"two cultures\" in our academic and intellectual institutions. The book is designed to be accessible to all those interested in the issue of the \"two cultures,\" or in the role of poetry and of science in contemporary culture.
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Leonardo's Fables
Leonardo's Fables explores the compositional methods and sources of Leonardo's fables and their relationship to illustrations and scientific studies. By concentrating on the chaotic character of Leonardo's textual and visual annotations, the author gradually discloses the artist's creative thinking that uses the page as a space for experimentation. Fables allow Leonardo to tie together his technical and artistic skills, empirical observation, and experience to reveal the interactive forces at the basis of physical phenomena and the tensions between painting and humanistic culture. This study reevaluates Leonardo's fables as part of a literary, aesthetic, and scientific project aimed at the investigation of Nature.
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Earth verse : haiku from the ground up
A collection of haiku poems celebrates the planet Earth, including such topics as rocks, earthquakes, fossils, volcanoes, and the water cycle. Includes Earth sciences fact pages.
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The Aesop's Fable Paradigm
The Aesop's Fable Paradigm is a collection of essays
that explore the cutting-edge intersection of Folklore and Science.
From moralizing fables to fantastic folktales, humans have been
telling stories about animals-animals who can talk, feel, think,
and make moral judgments just as we do-for a very long time. In
contrast, scientific studies of the mental lives of animals have
professed to be investigating the nature of animal minds slowly,
cautiously, objectively, with no room for fanciful tales, fables,
or myths. But recently, these folkloric and scientific traditions
have merged in an unexpected and shocking way: scientists have
attempted to prove that at least some animal fables are actually
true.
These interdisciplinary chapters examine how science has
targeted the well-known Aesop's fable \"The Crow and the Pitcher\" as
their starting point. They explore the ever-growing set of
experimental studies which purport to prove that crows possess an
understanding of higher-order concepts like weight, mass, and even
Archimedes' insight about the physics of water displacement.
The Aesop's Fable Paradigm explores how these
scientific studies are doomed to accomplish little more than to
mirror anthropomorphic representations of animals in human folklore
and reveal that the problem of folkloric projection extends far
beyond the \"Aesop's Fable Paradigm\" into every nook and cranny of
research on animal cognition.
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