Space/Time Employment Agency
Dave Monroe
monroe at mpm.edu
Thu Mar 8 03:53:57 CST 2001
Okay, looks like those posts I sent from my Hotmail address worked out
okay after all. But if anyone got the typographic mess I got back
(though I only had problems @ that Hotmail address), let me know. In
the meantime, wanted to actually find my copy of this before I
namedroped it ...
Friedman, Alan J. and Carol C. Donley.
Einstein as Myth and Muse. New York: Cambridge UP, 1985.
Chapters on both "Newtonian mechanics and literary responses" and
"Einstein becomes a muse." On the one hand, Pope, the Romanticists,
Blake, of course, Melville, the Transcendentalists, the Naturalists. On
the other, Williams, MacLeish, Zukofsky, Olson, Frost, Pound, Eliot,
cummings, Durrell, Woolf, Faulkner, Joyce, Nabokov. And not a bad
layman's guide to relativity, either. And, again, see also ...
Henderson, Linda Dalrymple. The Fourth Dimension and
Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton UP, 1983.
Mook, Delo E. and Thomas Vargish. Inside Relativity.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1991.
Vargish, Thomas and Delo E. Mook. Inside Modernism:
Relativity Theory, Cubism, Narrative. New Haven, CT:
Yale UP, 1999.
Reminds me, was lead to Friedman and Donley by ...
Steinman, Lisa. Made in America: Science, Technology and
American Modernist Poets. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1987.
Which I picked up for the Wm. C. Wms. angle ("St. Francis Einstein of
the Daffodils"). And, speaking of Einstein, see also ...
Barthes, Roland. "Einstein's Brain." Mythologies.
Trans. Annette Lavers. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972.
Paterniti, Michael. "Driving with Albert: A Trip across America
with Einstein's Brain." Harper's (October 1997).
Okay, gots me some hostin' to do, so ...
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