Science, Literature, and Film in the Hispanic World

1. An Introduction to Sciencepoetry: A New Beginning
Rafael Catala

2. 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
Eva Paulino Bueno

3. The Aura of Science in Fantastic Tales by Leopoldo Lugones, Macedonio Fernández, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Jorge Luis Borges
María Cristina Boiero De Angelo

4. Jorge Luis Borges and Early Quantum Labyrinths
Floyd Merrell

5. Carlos Fuentes’s Evolution Toward Ecological Awareness in His Essays and Narratives
Alicia Rivero

6. Life Signs: Ricardo Piglia’s Cyborgs
J. Andrew Brown

7. On Science and Mexican Nationalism: The Politics of Identity in Jorge Volpi’s In Search of Klingsor
Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste

8. Disease as a Dis/Organizing Principle in Nineteenth-Century Spain: Benito Pérez Galdós, Leopoldo Alas, and Emilia Pardo Bazán
Anne W. Gilfoil

9. Ido del Sagrario’s Alimentary Madness
Kevin S. Larsen

10. Pío Baroja’s Parascientific Epistemology
Beatriz Rivera-Barnes

11. “Aquel Madrid”: Science, Literature, and Art in the Edad de Plata
Cecelia Cavanaugh

12. Representations of Humans and Technology: The Construction of Identity in Miguel Bardem, Pedro Almodóvar, and Alejandro Amenábar
Juan Carlos Martin

Keywords: Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Film History, Latin American Culture, European Literature