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Book Synopsis The Quill and the Scalpel by : Stephen H. Blackwell
Download or read book The Quill and the Scalpel written by Stephen H. Blackwell and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most famous as a literary artist, Vladimir Nabokov was also a professional biologist and a lifelong student of science. By exploring the refractions of physics, psychology, and biology within his art and thought, The Quill and the Scalpel: Nabokov's Art and the Worlds of Science, by Stephen H. Blackwell, demonstrates how aesthetic sensibilities contributed to Nabokov's scientific work, and how his scientific passions shape, inform, and permeate his fictions
Book Synopsis The Quill and the Scalpel by : Stephen Hardwick Blackwell
Download or read book The Quill and the Scalpel written by Stephen Hardwick Blackwell and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Quill and the Scalpel by : Stephen Hardwick Blackwell
Download or read book The Quill and the Scalpel written by Stephen Hardwick Blackwell and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most famous as a literary artist, Vladimir Nabokov was also a professional biologist and a lifelong student of science. By exploring the refractions of physics, psychology, and biology within his art and thought, The Quill and the Scalpel: Nabokov's Art and the Worlds of Science, by Stephen H. Blackwell, demonstrates how aesthetic sensibilities contributed to Nabokov's scientific work, and how his scientific passions shape, inform, and permeate his fictions. Nabokov's attention to holistic study and inductive empirical work gradually reinforced his underlying suspicion of mechanistic explanations of nature. He perceived chilling parallels between the overconfidence of scientific progress and the dogmatic certainty of the Soviet regime. His scientific work and his artistic transfigurations of science underscore the limitations of human knowledge as a defining element of life. In provocative novels like Lolita, Pale Fire, The Gift, Ada, and others, Nabokov advances a surprisingly modest epistemology, urging skepticism toward all portrayals of nature, artistic and scientific. Simultaneously, he challenges his readers to recognize in the arts a vital branch of human discovery, one that both complements and informs traditional scientific research.
Book Synopsis Narratives of Nothing in 20th-Century Literature by : Meghan Vicks
Download or read book Narratives of Nothing in 20th-Century Literature written by Meghan Vicks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of nothing was an enduring concern of the 20th century. As Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre each positioned nothing as inseparable from the human condition and essential to the creation or operation of human existence, as Jacques Derrida demonstrated how all structures are built upon a nothing within the structure, and as mathematicians argued that zero ? the number that is also not a number ? allows for the creation of our modern mathematical system, Narratives of Nothing in 20th-Century Literature suggests that nothing itself enables the act of narration. Focusing on the literary works of Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, and Victor Pelevin, Meghan Vicks traces how and why these writers give narrative form to nothing, demonstrating that nothing is essential to the creation of narrative ? that is, how our perceptions are conditioned, how we make meaning (or madness) out of the stuff of our existence, how we craft our knowable selves, and how we exist in language.
Book Synopsis Vladimir Nabokov and the Poetics of Liberalism by : Dana Dragunoiu
Download or read book Vladimir Nabokov and the Poetics of Liberalism written by Dana Dragunoiu and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a close examination of Nabokov's father's political, moral, and aesthetic values and, more generally, Russian liberalism as it existed in the first few decades of the 20th century, the author provides persuasive answers to many long-standing questions in this deeply researched, innovative study.
Book Synopsis Vladimir Nabokov’s Lectures on Literature by : Ben Dhooge
Download or read book Vladimir Nabokov’s Lectures on Literature written by Ben Dhooge and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays focus on Nabokov's lectures on European and Russian literature at American universities, and shed new light on the relationship of his views on aesthetics to the development of his own oeuvre.
Book Synopsis The Calligraphy Handbook by : Emma Callery
Download or read book The Calligraphy Handbook written by Emma Callery and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Calligraphy Handbook is a complete guide to the art of calligraphy, from selecting pens and mastering different alphabets through designing and laying out your work—an excellent starter reference or step up for someone interested in creative lettering. Step-by-step mini projects demonstrate a wide range of techniques, from brush lettering and gliding to design principles and practice. Beautifully illustrated examples provide a wealth of inspiration and include scripts such as Roman, Italic, Gothic, and Copperplate calligraphy. In a digital age, it's easy to move away from handwriting, but even the most artistically stunted can create beautiful text blocks on gift cards and in their own journals. The stylish design of this book—along with the interior photographs, illustrations, and diagrams—make the learning process simple and fun for beginners and provides useful tips for more advanced readers. The book also describes the equipment needed to be an excellent calligrapher, including the paper, measuring tools, pens, brushes, and inks. Teach yourself a skill with versatile and practical uses and bring a little bit of beauty onto the page.
Book Synopsis Fine Lines by : Stephen Hardwick Blackwell
Download or read book Fine Lines written by Stephen Hardwick Blackwell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reproduces 154 of Russian-American novelist and entomologist Vladimir Nabokov's drawings, few of which have ever been seen in public, and presents essays by ten leading scientists and Nabokov scholars. The contributors underscore the significance of Nabokov's drawings as scientific documents, evaluate his visionary contributions to evolutionary biology and systematics, and offer insights into his unique artistic perception and creativity. Showcasing color drawings of butterflies' distinctive markings and anatomy as well, all as part of his work at the American Museum of Natural History and Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology.
Book Synopsis The Violence of Reading by : Dominik Zechner
Download or read book The Violence of Reading written by Dominik Zechner and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Anatomy Museum by : Elizabeth Hallam
Download or read book The Anatomy Museum written by Elizabeth Hallam and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anatomy museums around the world showcase preserved corpses in service of education and medical advancement, but they are little-known and have been largely hidden from the public eye. Elizabeth Hallam here investigates the anatomy museum and how it reveals the fascination and fears that surround the dead body in Western societies. Hallam explores the history of these museums and how they operate in the current cultural environment. Their regulated access increasingly clashes with evolving public mores toward the exposed body, as demonstrated by the international popularity of the Body Worlds exhibition. The book examines such related topics as artistic works that employ the images of dead bodies and the larger ongoing debate over the disposal of corpses. Issues such as aesthetics and science, organ and body donations, and the dead body in Western religion and ritual are also discussed here in fascinating depth. The Anatomy Museum unearths a strange and compelling cultural history that investigates the ideas of preservation, human rituals of death, and the spaces that our bodies occupy in this life and beyond.
Book Synopsis Oscillations of Literary Theory by : A. C. Facundo
Download or read book Oscillations of Literary Theory written by A. C. Facundo and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revises key psychoanalytic concepts that influence interpretive practices in the humanities and formulates a new approach to reading fiction. Oscillations of Literary Theory offers a new psychoanalytic approach to reading literature queerly, one that implicates queer theory without depending on explicit representations of sex or queer identities. By focusing on desire and identifications, A. C. Facundo argues that readers can enjoy the text through a variety of rhythms between two (eroticized) positions: the paranoid imperative and queer reparative. Facundo examines the metaphor of rupture as central to the logic of critique, particularly the project to undo conventional formations of identity and power. To show how readers can rebuild their relational worlds after the rupture, Facundo looks to the themes of the desire for omniscience, the queer pleasure of the text, loss and letting go, and the vanishing points that structure thinking. Analyses of Nabokovs Lolita, Danielewskis House of Leaves, Findleys The Wars, and Ishiguros Never Let Me Go are included, which model this new approach to reading. Armed with a full repertoire of psychoanalytic resources, Facundo navigates the paranoid?reparative debate in literary studies with greater finesse than any critic Ive read. Reframing current critical impasses, Oscillations of Literary Theory makes substantial contributions to narrative theory and aesthetics by illuminating their crucial connections with sexuality and pleasure. Facundo offers us here nothing less than a new method of reading queerly. Tim Dean, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign This book seeks to understand hermeneutic imperatives and flights from these in terms of paranoid and reparative drives (as distinct from affect). It is a bold and ambitious project, but Facundo brings to it an exceptional array of skills. I am impressed by the authors close, subtle, and very canny readings of both theoretical and literary texts and by her demonstration of the complexity, variety, and centrality of ideas and operations of paranoia and the reparative in writings from Freud to the present. Oscillations revitalizes psychoanalytic criticism in its distinctly queer relation to psychoanalysis, a relation that yields surprising and refreshing insights. Stephen M. Barber, coeditor of Regarding Sedgwick: Essays on Queer Culture and Critical Theory
Book Synopsis Nabokov's Mimicry of Freud by : Teckyoung Kwon
Download or read book Nabokov's Mimicry of Freud written by Teckyoung Kwon and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teckyoung Kwon examines Nabokov’s use of literary devices that draw upon psychology and biology, characters that imitate Freud or Nabokov in behavior or thought, and Jamesian concepts of time, memory, and consciousness in The Defense, Despair, Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada.
Book Synopsis Trout Stream Insects of New Zealand by : Norman Marsh
Download or read book Trout Stream Insects of New Zealand written by Norman Marsh and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2004-11-16 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mayflies, caddisflies, stoneflies, and other abundant trout insects in New Zealand New Zealand trout flies past and present: Green Stonefly, Pomahaka Red, Willow Grub, Mataura Red Personal stories on the water learning about the fish and what they eat A fascinating tour of streamside New Zealand. Photos and illustrations of insects accompany extensive information about how to fish them. Learn vital streamside lore and how to analyze a trout's stomach contents. A section on how to tie imitations includes materials and tools. Materials lists and instructions detail how to tie popular New Zealand flies, from Izaak Walton's flies to today's favorites.
Book Synopsis The Veterinary ICU Book by : Wayne E. Wingfield
Download or read book The Veterinary ICU Book written by Wayne E. Wingfield and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 1225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is dedicated to the fundamental clinical signs of astute observation, careful differential diagnosis and analytical therapeutic decision-making in emergency veterinary settings. It clearly defines the physiological and clinical principles fundamental to the management of the critically ill small animal patient. With clear guidelines for organizing an emergency/critical care unit, the book also discusses ethical and legal concerns. The 80 expert authors have created a clinically specific resource for the specialist, residents in training, veterinary practitioners, technicians and students.Published by Teton New Media in the USA and distributed by CRC Press outside of North America.
Book Synopsis Index of NLM Serial Titles by : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Download or read book Index of NLM Serial Titles written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A keyword listing of serial titles currently received by the National Library of Medicine.
Book Synopsis The Correspondence of Robert Boyle, 1636-1691 by : Lawrence M Principe
Download or read book The Correspondence of Robert Boyle, 1636-1691 written by Lawrence M Principe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 3368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Boyle (1627-1691) was one of the most influential scientific and theological thinkers of his time. This is the first edition of his correspondence, transcribed from the original manuscripts. It is fully annotated, with an introduction and general index and is a set of 6 volumes covering the period of 1636 to 1691
Book Synopsis Reader as Accomplice by : Alexander Spektor
Download or read book Reader as Accomplice written by Alexander Spektor and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reader as Accomplice: Narrative Ethics in Dostoevsky and Nabokov argues that Fyodor Dostoevsky and Vladimir Nabokov seek to affect the moral imagination of their readers by linking morally laden plots to the ethical questions raised by narrative fiction at the formal level. By doing so, these two authors ask us to consider and respond to the ethical demands that narrative acts of representation and interpretation place on authors and readers. Using the lens of narrative ethics, Alexander Spektor brings to light the important, previously unexplored correspondences between Dostoevsky and Nabokov. Ultimately, he argues for a productive comparison of how each writer investigates the ethical costs of narrating oneself and others. He also explores the power dynamics between author, character, narrator, and reader. In his readings of such texts as “The Meek One” and The Idiot by Dostoevsky and Bend Sinister and Despair by Nabokov, Spektor demonstrates that these authors incite the reader’s sense of ethics by exposing the risks but also the possibilities of narrative fiction.
