Une pure merveille !
Un roman d'une grande beauté, drôle, fin, extrêmement lumineux sur des sujets difficiles : la perte de
l'être aimé, la dureté de la vie et la tristesse qu'on barricade parfois... Elise franco-japonaise,
orpheline de sa maman veut poser LA question à son père et elle en trouvera le courage au fil des pages,
grâce au retour de sa grand-mère du japon, de sa rencontre avec son extravagante amie Stella..
Ensemble il ne diront plus Sayonara mais Mata Ne !
This book follows the interplay of allegory and physics from the advent of the laws of thermodynamics in 1850s to the cultural reception of the theory...
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This book follows the interplay of allegory and physics from the advent of the laws of thermodynamics in 1850s to the cultural reception of the theory of relativity in the 1920s. The physical and allegorical ferment of the new energy science had important repercussions in many fields of culture, including politics, philosophy, literature, and the arts. Energy Forms examines a number of nineteenth-century writers responding to thermodynamics and electromagnetism and connects them to early twentieth-century culture by examining their effects in the novels and essays of Yevgeny Zamyatin and D-H Lawrence.
Part One gives a theoretical overview of the formal interconnections of allegory and science, the circulation of energy concepts within ideological frames of representation, and other forms of allegorical transfer of scientific concepts to various sites in the cultural field. Part Two follows the allegory of classical thermodynamics from its inception in the science of Thomson and Maxwell to its culmination in modernist fiction, detailing how narratives of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Charles Howard Hinton, Camille Flammarion, H-G Wells, Zamyatin, and Lawrence personify energies and moralize their transformations. Part Three shifts to the allegory of electromagnetic radiation, wherein energy and entropy are repositioned as processes mediated by the ether and the fourth dimension of space. These allegories of space countered visions of entropic doom by opening up new dimensions of existential and physical possibility. Victorian and modernist literature are energized by this broad cultural tension between thermodynamic malaise and electromagnetic aspiration.
The book will interest scholars in the history of science, readers concerned with scientific rhetoric, and scholars of science and society. It will also appeal to students of Victorian and modernist literature, especially those with comparatist and interdisciplinary interests.
Bruce Clarke is Professor of English at Texas Tech University. He is the author of Allegories of Writing : The Subject of Metamorphosis and Dora Marsden and Early Modernism : Gender, Individualism, Science.