Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science - Tapa blanda

Major, Alice

 
9780888645951: Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science
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ISBN 10: 0888645953 ISBN 13: 9780888645951
Editorial: University of Alberta Press, 2011

Sinopsis

Poet Alice Major was given a book on relativity at the impressionable age of ten, so she never quite understood why science came to be dismissed as reductive or opposite to art. She surveys the sciences of the past half-century -- from physical to cognitive to evolutionary -- to shed light on why and how human beings create poems, challenging some of the mantras of postmodern thought in the process. Part memoir, part ars poetica, part wonder-journey, Intersecting Sets is a wide-ranging and insightful amalgam.

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Acerca del autor

Alice Major emigrated from Scotland at the age of eight, and grew up in Toronto before coming west to work as a weekly newspaper reporter. She served as the City of Edmonton’s first poet laureate from 2005–2007. A widely-published author, she has won many distinctions. Her most recent book, Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science, received the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for non-fiction as well as a National Magazine Award gold medal. Her website is www.alicemajor.com.

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Editorial
University of Alberta Press
Año de publicación
2011
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0888645953
ISBN 13 
9780888645951
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
296
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