Las dos culturas. Literatura y ciencias del universo en la obra de Rubén Darío // The two cultures: Literature and science of the universe in the works of Rubén Darío

The gap between the knowledge related to the field of literature and to that of science begins to widen at the end of the 19th century, and this separations gets more pronounced in the 20th century. However, already in the 19th century the relationship between natural science and literary science...

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Main Author: Juana Martínez
Format: Article
Language:ces
Published: Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická Fakulta 2016-12-01
Series:Svět Literatury
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Online Access:http://svetliteratury.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2017/01/juana_martinez_51-60.pdf
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Summary:The gap between the knowledge related to the field of literature and to that of science begins to widen at the end of the 19th century, and this separations gets more pronounced in the 20th century. However, already in the 19th century the relationship between natural science and literary science was subject of Rubén Darío’s attention, and for some time he saw them as closely related, working with the examples offered by the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, and G. H. Wells, on each of whom he wrote an essay. Towards the end of his life, Darío’s youthful enthusiasm for sciences dwindled.
ISSN:0862-8440
2336-6729