Representation is a concern crucial to the sciences and the arts alike. Scientists devote substantial time to devising and exploring representations of all kind

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The Matter of Mimesis offers a rich and interdisciplinary perspective on how and why we use materials to copy, from the human body to the entire cosmos, from pr

This book is concerned with such questions as the following: What is the life of the past in the present? How might “the theatre of death” and “the uncann

This book offers a bold new view of the way in which modernist fiction, painting, music, and poetry are interlinked. Dowden shows that modernism, contrary to a