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Uniform Title Mélancolies du savoir. English.
Title Melancholies of knowledge : literature in the age of science / edited by Margery Arent Safir ; [contributions, Stephen Jay Gould and others]
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 205 pages)
Series SUNY series, the margins of literature
SUNY series, the margins of literature.
Contents Out of time in the dreaming jungles / Stephen Jay Gould -- 'It is not safe to know' / Margery Arent Safir -- A disenchanted enchanter / Michel Pastoureau -- Cosmoses and metaphor / James Ritter -- Topographies / James Swenson -- The temptation of the last man / Jean-Michel Rabaté -- The Aztec tlacuilo and the Other / Joaquín Galarza -- The mind's I / Christian Metz
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-191) and index
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Subject Rio, Michel -- Criticism and interpretation
Rio, Michel -- Knowledge -- Science
SUBJECT Rio, Michel fast
Subject Science in literature.
Scientists in literature.
Literature and science.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
Literature and science
Science
Science in literature
Scientists in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Arent Safir, Margery, 1947-
Gould, Stephen Jay
LC no. 98006224
ISBN 0585019096
9780585019093
1438418450
9781438418452