Signs of Science: Literature, Science, and Spanish Modernity since 1868.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-OCT-03

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Signs of Science: Literature, Science, and Spanish Modernity since 1868. By DALE PRATT. (Purdue Studies in Romance Literature, 22) West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press. 2001. ix+226 pp. $50.95. ISBN 1-55753-221-4.

Signalling Spain's relationship with science as key to Spain's membership in modern Europe, Dale Pratt sets out in this study to track a dialogue in process from 1870 to 1970: the place of science in Spanish culture. The dialogue takes place with Spain's cultural modernity, and specifically, with its literature. The breadth of meaning of ciencia, stretching between 'knowledge' and 'science', contributes in no small way to the complications of the life between the two cultures in Spain. The detailed studies offered by Pratt go some distance towards providing a context and understanding of this life.

In the introduction, which...

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