Comparative Criticism

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Frontispiece
Editor's introduction: The Sphinx and the Muses: the third culture
Part I. Literature and Science:
1. Literary Chinese as a scientific language. A selection from the concluding volume of Science and Civilisation in China. With illustrations Joseph Needham and Kenneth Robinson
2. 'The names of things not generally known …': scientists, translators and terminology in the age of Newton L. G. Kelly
3. The poet's senses: G. B. Marino's epic poem L'Adone and the new science Maurice Slawinski
4. Science and supernaturalism: Sir David Brewster and Sir Walter Scott. With illustrations Frederick Burwick
5. Helmholtz, Tyndall, Gerard Manley Hopkins: leaps of the prepared imagination Gillian Beer
6. The hermeneutics of extinction: denial and discovery in scientific literature Joel Black
7. Beckett and science: Watt and the quantum universe Angela Montgomery
Part II. Literature and Translation:
8. L'Expérience de traduire: Verlaine's Femmes/Hombres Alistair Elliot
9. Notes on the Theory of Literary History Translated with an introduction by Ian Fairley György Lukács
Part III. Essay Reviews:
10. Bacon among the literati: science and language Brian Vickers
11. A new discipline? Essays in 'literature and science' Roy Porter
Bibliographies: Books and periodicals received Andrew Milne
Bibliography of Comparative Literature in Britain and Ireland 1988 Joseph Th. Leerssen
Special bibliography: Technical translation in England, 1640–1800 L. G. Kelly.

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