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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | Michel Rio; Michel Rio |
Material Type: | Government publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Margery Arent Safir |
ISBN: | 0791439747 9780791439746 0791439739 9780791439739 |
OCLC Number: | 767793658 |
Description: | ix, 205 pages ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction / Margery Arent Safir -- 1. Out of Time in the Dreaming Jungles / Stephen Jay Gould -- 2. "It is not safe to know" / Margery Arent Safir -- 3. A Disenchanted Enchanter / Michel Pastoureau -- 4. Cosmoses and Metaphor / James Ritter -- 5. Topographies / James Swenson -- 6. The Temptation of the Last Man / Jean-Michel Rabate -- 7. The Aztec tlacuilo and the Other / Joaquin Galarza -- 8. The Mind's I / Christian Metz. |
Series Title: | SUNY series, the margins of literature. |
Other Titles: | Melancholies of knowledge. Mélancolies du savoir. |
Responsibility: | edited by Margery Arent Safir. |
Abstract:
Offering interdisciplinary criticism and methodology, Melancholies of Knowledge includes essays by scientists, social scientists, and literary critics on the work of the French novelist Michel Rio. It provides a non-specialist's description of the most important scientific changes in the century - easily understandable and related to issues of concern in the humanities - as well as an opportunity to see how these scientific changes are being incorporated into literary discourse, into the human element outside of theory or the laboratory.
In presenting a new methodology that proposes true interdisciplinarity, Melancholies of Knowledge identifies a new class of contemporary fiction and, as a test case, provides the first serious criticism of a major contemporary French author.
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