Feeling Strangely in Mid-Century Spanish and Latin American Women�s Fiction, Gender and the Scientific Imaginary

Author

Rankin; Tess C.

Year

2024

Publisher

Liverpool University Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-1-83764-501-5

Link

Last Update

05-Jan-2026

Keywords

Language & Literature ; Feminist & Women's Studies ; Gender Studies

Description

These passages from German empiricist philosopher Hans Reichenbach’s 1930 book (Spanish translation 1931, English translation 1932) exemplify the vivid language used by science writers as they introduced paradigm-shifting ideas to nonspecialist audiences. Reichenbach connects invisibly small structures to a striking natural scene: alongside a delicately trembling branch of berries, the structures and forms that support and define daily life suddenly lose their form. This radical reimagining of everything from lakes to bridges may produce confusion and uncertainty, but for the many writers who attempted, in the first half of the twentieth century, to convey the immediacy and importance of the...