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The concept of a constant reformulation of the canon due to the
notion of singularity or irreducibility of the case can be applied
in both scientific and literary fields. In this volume, dynamics of
interconnections between the case and the canon are analysed by
scholars belonging to different disciplines such as physics,
medicine, biology, psychoanalysis, and literature. Particular
attention has been given to the science of detection since the
techniques of investigation are based on the scientific acquisition
of evidence and often imply a scientific (abductive) process. The
book is divided into two sections: Part I concentrates mainly on
literary contributions and psychological issues, while part II
concentrates on scientific enquiries. The contributions have been
selected according to two main guidelines: The first covers
anomalies, discontinuities, metaphors between science and
literature. The second focus lies on the case in crime fiction: The
scientist as detective and the detective as scientist.
Ancient Rome has always been considered a compendium of City and
World. In the Renaissance, an era of epistemic fractures, when the
clash between the 'new science' (Copernicus, Galileo, Vesalius,
Bacon, etcetera) and the authority of ancient texts produced the
very notion of modernity, the extended and expanding geography of
ancient Rome becomes, for Shakespeare and the Elizabethans, a
privileged arena in which to question the nature of bodies and the
place they hold in a changing order of the universe. Drawing on the
rich scenario provided by Shakespeare's Rome, and adopting an
interdisciplinary perspective, the authors of this volume address
the way in which the different bodies of the earthly and heavenly
spheres are re-mapped in Shakespeare's time and in early modern
European culture. More precisely, they investigate the way bodies
are fashioned to suit or deconstruct a culturally articulated
system of analogies between earth and heaven, microcosm and
macrocosm. As a whole, this collection brings to the fore a wide
range of issues connected to the Renaissance re-mapping of the
world and the human. It should interest not only Shakespeare
scholars but all those working on the interaction between sciences
and humanities.
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