Introduction - Les ailes de Dédale
Type de document :
Partie d'ouvrage
Titre :
Introduction - Les ailes de Dédale
Auteur(s) :
Musitelli, Sophie [Auteur]
Centre d'Études en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères - ULR 4074 [CECILLE]
Centre d'Études en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères - ULR 4074 [CECILLE]
Titre de l’ouvrage :
"The harmony of truth" : sciences et poésie dans l'oeuvre de Percy B. Shelley
Éditeur :
PUL-ELLUG
Lieu de publication :
Grenoble
Date de publication :
2012
ISBN :
978-2-84310-224-0
Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :
Shelley
Romanticism
Literature
Poetry
Literature and Science
19th century literature
Romanticism
Literature
Poetry
Literature and Science
19th century literature
Discipline(s) HAL :
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Littératures
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences
Résumé en anglais : [en]
The Romantic era was a time of tremendous change in the relationship between literary creation and scientific knowledge. Scientists framed a specific language and distinctive methods as they moved away from natural philosophy, ...
Lire la suite >The Romantic era was a time of tremendous change in the relationship between literary creation and scientific knowledge. Scientists framed a specific language and distinctive methods as they moved away from natural philosophy, which had thus far combined physics with metaphysics and united the observation of nature with its celebration. While William Wordsworth stated that « we murder to dissect », thus declaring the secession of poetic writing from scientific discourse, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was steadily studying science at Eton and then at Oxford, before embarking on a medical training at Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. This thesis explores the poetic transfiguration of the scientific theories and concepts that Shelley came across in his readings and during his studies. It focuses on the way science is subverted by the poet’s imagination, as scientific representations undergo a fruitful metamorphosis, and become part of the webs of metaphors woven by the text according to its own laws. Shelley recreates the mythical and imaginary foundations as well as the ethical and metaphysical implications which lie dormant in the scientific writings he looks into. This study examines the encounter of two heuristic endeavours, of two highly formalised ways of writing. Science and poetry are in search of the hidden harmonies which underlie appearances. Measuring the measureless, encompassing absolute beauty within poetic metrics, subsuming the infinite richness of the natural world within the rules of mathematical calculation, such are the parallel endeavours of Shelley’s poetry and the science of his age.Lire moins >
Lire la suite >The Romantic era was a time of tremendous change in the relationship between literary creation and scientific knowledge. Scientists framed a specific language and distinctive methods as they moved away from natural philosophy, which had thus far combined physics with metaphysics and united the observation of nature with its celebration. While William Wordsworth stated that « we murder to dissect », thus declaring the secession of poetic writing from scientific discourse, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was steadily studying science at Eton and then at Oxford, before embarking on a medical training at Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. This thesis explores the poetic transfiguration of the scientific theories and concepts that Shelley came across in his readings and during his studies. It focuses on the way science is subverted by the poet’s imagination, as scientific representations undergo a fruitful metamorphosis, and become part of the webs of metaphors woven by the text according to its own laws. Shelley recreates the mythical and imaginary foundations as well as the ethical and metaphysical implications which lie dormant in the scientific writings he looks into. This study examines the encounter of two heuristic endeavours, of two highly formalised ways of writing. Science and poetry are in search of the hidden harmonies which underlie appearances. Measuring the measureless, encompassing absolute beauty within poetic metrics, subsuming the infinite richness of the natural world within the rules of mathematical calculation, such are the parallel endeavours of Shelley’s poetry and the science of his age.Lire moins >
Langue :
Français
Audience :
Internationale
Vulgarisation :
Non
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