Month: July 2010
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Evolutionary Criticism and Epic Poetry: Brian Boyd, On the Origin of Stories, Jonathan Gottschall, The Rape of Troy, and Clinton Machann, Masculinity in Four Victorian Epics
Brian Boyd, On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), xiii+540 pp. £25.95 hb. ISBN 978-0674033573. Jonathan Gottschall, The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence, and the World of Homer (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), xii+223 pp. £53 hb. ISBN 978-0521870382. £18.99 pb. ISBN 978-0521690478. Clinton Machann, Masculinity…
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“Why does theatre plus science equal poor plays?”
This entry on The Guardian’s Theatre Blog might interest BSLS members, as might the discussion strand following it: “Why does theatre plus science equal poor plays”, by Alexis Soloski
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Blackwell, Stephen H., The Quill and the Scalpel: Nabokov’s Art and the Worlds of Science
Stephen H. Blackwell, The Quill and the Scalpel: Nabokov’s Art and the Worlds of Science (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2009). pp 276. £37.26 hb. ISBN 978-0-8142-1099-4 . Interviewing Vladimir Nabokov for a 1964 edition of Playboy magazine, the American futurist Alvin Toffler raised the question of the place of the ‘irrational’ in what…
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Holmes, John, Darwin’s Bards
John Holmes, Darwin’s Bards: British and American Poetry in the Age of Evolution (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009). xiv + 288 pp. £60.00, hb. ISBN: 9780748639403. Recently I did a Google Books search for the keywords ‘Darwin’ and ‘poetry’. Fittingly, John Holmes’s Darwin’s Bards topped the list. Published the year of Darwin’s bicentenary—and, of course,…
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Call for Papers: Poetry and Melancholia
University of Stirling, 8-10 July 2011 Keynote speakers: Catherine Maxwell (Queen Mary, University of London), Don Paterson (Poet), and Susan J. Wolfson (Princeton University). Other speakers include John Drakakis (Stirling University), Lorna Hutson (University of St Andrews), Ron Levao (Rutgers University), Cornelia D. J. Pearsall (Smith College) and David G. Riede (Ohio State University) This…
