Science, Literature, and Film in the Hispanic World

Introduction to Sciencepoetry * Three Theories, Three Writers, One Idea: Science and the Nation in the Brazilian Literature of Joaquim de Souzândrade, Euclides da Cunha, and Augusto dos Anjos * The Aura of Science in Fantastic Tales by Leopoldo Lugones, Macedonio Fernández, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Jorge Luis Borges * Jorge Luis Borges, and Early Quantum Labyrinths * Carlos Fuentes' Evolution Towards Ecological Awareness in His Essays and Narratives * Life Signs in Ricardo Piglia's Cyborgs * On Science and Mexican Nationalism: The Politics of Identity in Jorge Volpi's In Search of Klingsor * Disease as a Dis/Organizing Principle in Nineteenth-Century Spain: Benito Pérez Galdós, Leopoldo Alas, and Emilia Pardo Bazán * Ido del Sagrario's Alimentary Madness * Pío Baroja's Parascientific Epistemology * Aquel Madrid: Science, Literature, and Art in Federico García Lorca, Azorín, don Santiago Ramón y Cajal and other Luminaries of Madrid's Edad de Plata * Representations of Humans and Technology: The Construction of Identity in Arturo Pérez Reverte, Pedro Almodóvar, and Alejandro Amenábar