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Melchanolies [i.e. melancholies] of knowledge : literature in the age of science

Print Book, English, ©1999
[Expanded and rev. ed.]
State University of New York Press, Albany, ©1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc
ix, 205 pages ; 24 cm.
9780791439739, 9780791439746, 0791439739, 0791439747
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Introduction / Margery Arent Safir
1. Out of Time in the Dreaming Jungles / Stephen Jay Gould
2. "It is not safe to know" / Margery Arent Safir
3. A Disenchanted Enchanter / Michel Pastoureau
4. Cosmoses and Metaphor / James Ritter
5. Topographies / James Swenson
6. The Temptation of the Last Man / Jean-Michel Rabate
7. The Aztec tlacuilo and the Other / Joaquin Galarza
8. The Mind's I / Christian Metz
Translated from the French