Thesis ID: CBB377971334

Popular Science and Modernist Poetry (2019)

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Popular Science and Modernist Poetry studies the influence of popular science on modernist poetry and conceptions of literary value. It takes I.A. Richards’s Science and Poetry as its primary object, using the 1926 book—which was published in two popular science series and reviewed in The Dial, at editor Marianne Moore’s request, by T.S. Eliot—to examine the surprising connections between popular science and modernist poetry and criticism. I include chapters on each of these writers, using archival material to better understand the sources of their scientific knowledge. I argue that popular science writers, in response to increasing difficulty and specialization, sought to explicate their subjects by way of metaphor; in doing so, they fashioned a version of science that was as capacious and interdisciplinary any “encyclopedic” modernist text. Metaphor became, to Richards, a “transaction between contexts,” as he, Moore, and Eliot sought to defend the value of poetry in an increasingly scientific world.

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Authors & Contributors
Olster, Stacey
Kilian, Lauren
Anderson, Penelope
Laetitia Rimpau
Shaw, Lytle
Charlwood, Catherine
Concepts
Science and literature
Literary analysis
Poetry and poetics
Modernism
Popularization
Public understanding of science
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
Early modern
20th century
18th century
Modern
Places
United States
Great Britain
England
Prague (Czechia)
Greece
Germany
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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