Intersecting Sets
A Poet Looks at Science
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Poetry History & Criticism, Essays & Letters, Essays, Biography & Memoir, Literary
| Author: | Alice Major | ISBN: | 9780888646095 |
| Publisher: | University of Alberta Press | Publication: | October 15, 2011 |
| Imprint: | University of Alberta Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Alice Major |
| ISBN: | 9780888646095 |
| Publisher: | University of Alberta Press |
| Publication: | October 15, 2011 |
| Imprint: | University of Alberta Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
