Download or read book The Metaphysics of Insect Life, and Other Essays written by David Spooner and published by Hamilton Books:Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1995 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarly essays dealing with scientific and cultural theory in the post modernist world through the prism of music, literature and language with a focus on the natural world and its creative interpreters. Among the literary figures discussed are Apuleius, Shakespeare, Kafka, Muir, Jimenez, Machado, Vallejo and Chenier.