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The Refracted Muse
Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas
其他書名
Literature and Optics in Early Modern Spain
出版
University of Chicago Press
, 2017-08-07
主題
History / General
History / Europe / Spain
Literary Criticism / European / Spanish & Portuguese
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General
Science / General
Science / History
Technology & Engineering / History
ISBN
022646573X
9780226465739
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=P5YtDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Galileo never set foot on the Iberian Peninsula, yet, as Enrique García Santo-Tomás unfolds in
The Refracted Muse
, the news of his work with telescopes brought him to surprising prominence—not just among Spaniards working in the developing science of optometry but among creative writers as well.
While Spain is often thought to have taken little notice of the Scientific Revolution, García Santo-Tomás tells a different story, one that reveals Golden Age Spanish literature to be in close dialogue with the New Science. Drawing on the work of writers such as Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, and Quevedo, he helps us trace the influence of science and discovery on the rapidly developing and highly playful genre of the novel. Indeed, García Santo-Tomás makes a strong case that the rise of the novel cannot be fully understood without taking into account its relationship to the scientific discoveries of the period.