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Joycean elements in F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby.

In this study, Barney Tanner examines F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925), placing it within the context of James Joyce's experimentations in Ulysses (1922). The analysis concentrates on the linguistic patterning in the novel, particularly Fitzgerald's use of complex burlesques and doubling.  An experienced independent literary scholar with a number of texts to his credit, Tanner  has been studying Fitzgerald and Joyce for over 40 years. The final version of the monograph was enthusiastically reviewed by Professor Gavin R. Jones (Stanford U.), who contributes a commendatory foreword. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Transfigured light; philosophy, cybernetics and the hermetic imaginary.

The standard account of the development of science is mistaken, declares Marvell (communications and creative arts, Edith Cowan U., Australia), in considering that Hermetic ideas were expunged from the modern worldview during and after the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century. He argues that such notions as chaos and complexity theory, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science are not new-born and sui generis as claimed, but in fact ancient ideas that have continued to flow just beneath the surface of science in metaphor, in inversion, in leaps of faith. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)