Engineering the ideal: applied modern poetics as applied modern science.
Many scholars have traced the influences of theoretical science in modernist poetry. However, at the beginning of the twentieth century western audiences were principally enamoured of the applied sciences (or engineering) and especially the ideal of efficiency. The principles and processes of engine...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of English Studies Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 302 - 317 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2018
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