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,The Aura of Science in Fantastic Tales by Leopoldo Lugones, Macedonio Fernández, Adolfo Bioy Casareonio Fernández, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, and Santiago Dabove, among others, have tried their pens at fantastic stories that offer variant models for science fiction. In their utopias or dystopias, science intermingles with literary imagination and superb prose to shed

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Jorge Luis Borges and Early Quantum Labyrinths,is world was committed to memory in all its particulars as an autonomous atom of experience, and for whom at every moment what he perceives is fresh, spontaneously arisen, and as if entirely new. Funes’s problem is that he can forget nothing; hence he can not think, for to think is to abstract, sele

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,Carlos Fuentes’s Evolution Toward Ecological Awareness in His Essays and Narratives,s as the background in many of his texts. However, Fuentes has progressed over time toward a genuine, ecological cognizance of the interdependence of all living things and the dangers of international pollution. He grants nature and women a significant role in at least some of his works, even if his

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,On Science and Mexican Nationalism: The Politics of Identity in Jorge Volpi’s , is assigned the task of searching for and identifying Klingsor, Adolph Hitler’s nuclear program advisor. The text reads like a scientific, historic thriller and employs abundant theoretical elucidation to substantiate its plot. Yet, while . signified an overwhelming literary success, won Volpi the

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,Disease as a Dis/Organizing Principle in Nineteenth-Century Spain: Benito Pérez Galdós, Leopoldo Alng alien and alienating. It involves an “othering” of the body, our most basic cultural unit. Disease poses a challenge to the existing . through an imposition of a partial or total eclipse of the human being’s social being by his natural state. Illness is, after all, an implicit critique of the dom

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,Ido del Sagrario’s Alimentary Madness,cribes in detail various physicians and diverse medical matters. He was closely acquainted with prominent doctors of his time, such as Manuel Tolosa Latour (see Ricard 87–90, Schmidt 91–94), and apparently studied particular questions in considerable depth, whether in actual medical tomes or in “cas

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,Pío Baroja’s Parascientific Epistemology, his way around the theories of Lamarck, of Linnaeus, and of Darwin, and had no qualms about making pronouncements about heredity, environment, and human behavior obeying some simple biological laws such as the survival of the fittest. But Baroja was also a moralist and chronicler of his epoch, as w

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,“Aquel Madrid”: Science, Literature, and Art in the ,the poet Juan Ramón Jiménez. This address, . [Blessed be the Light], figures as a brilliant integration of Don Manuel’s own lifetime work in photosynthesis, the history of scientific cuRíosity and research, and the literary and scientific ties between Spain and the New World, with the imagery of lig