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Science and the creative imagination in Latin America / edited by Evelyn Fishburn and Eduardo L. Ortiz.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Spanish Original language: Spanish Publication details: London : Institute for the Study of the Americas, [2005]Description: viii, 209 p. : ill., 1 map ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1900039613 (pbk.)
  • 9781900039611 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 509.8
LOC classification:
  • Q 127 S416 2005
Contents:
Introduction / Evelyn Fishburn and Eduardo L. Ortiz -- Darwin in South America : geology, imagination and encounter / Dame Gillian Beer -- Walking backward to the future : time, travel and race / Benigno Trigo -- Natural parts and unnatural others : a reflection on patrimony at the turn of the nineteenth century / Sylvia Molloy -- On the transition from realism to the fantastic in the Argentina of the 1870s : Holmberg and the Câordoba Six / Eduardo L. Ortiz -- Literature and science in Martinez Estrada's work / Alejandro Kaufman -- The nature effect in Latin American science publications : the case of the journal Redes / Claudio Canaparo -- Two scientific traditions in Martâin Fierro / Norma S. Horenstein -- Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in contemporary Spanish American fiction / Alicia Rivero -- Constructing postcoloniality : scientific enquiries in Cien aänos de soledad / Patricia Murray -- Holograms and simulacra : bioy casares, subeila, piglia / Geoffrey Kantaris -- The desert poetics of Mario Montalbetti : writing, knowledge, topologies / William Rowe.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) Q 127 S416 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000113010

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Evelyn Fishburn and Eduardo L. Ortiz -- Darwin in South America : geology, imagination and encounter / Dame Gillian Beer -- Walking backward to the future : time, travel and race / Benigno Trigo -- Natural parts and unnatural others : a reflection on patrimony at the turn of the nineteenth century / Sylvia Molloy -- On the transition from realism to the fantastic in the Argentina of the 1870s : Holmberg and the Câordoba Six / Eduardo L. Ortiz -- Literature and science in Martinez Estrada's work / Alejandro Kaufman -- The nature effect in Latin American science publications : the case of the journal Redes / Claudio Canaparo -- Two scientific traditions in Martâin Fierro / Norma S. Horenstein -- Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in contemporary Spanish American fiction / Alicia Rivero -- Constructing postcoloniality : scientific enquiries in Cien aänos de soledad / Patricia Murray -- Holograms and simulacra : bioy casares, subeila, piglia / Geoffrey Kantaris -- The desert poetics of Mario Montalbetti : writing, knowledge, topologies / William Rowe.

Text in English with some passages in parallel English and Spanish.

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