Tragedy criticisms

This book is about the scientific roots of our modern way of life. It tells the story of pioneering chemists like Berthollet whose discoveries solved critical problems in their lifetimes. Readers should be forewarned. The lives of these scientists tend to be dramatic. They are filled with the joys of discovery, the excitement of their times, and even the anguish of human tragedy. 

In 2006, the speciation of metals and metalloids (As, Bi, Hg, Pb, Sb, Se and Sn) associated with alkyl groups and biomacromolecules in the environment was critically reviewed by Hirner.85 More than 60 species of alkylated metals and metalloids have been found in different ecosystems and terrestrial locations all over the world.85-87 These alkylated metals or metalloids are of interest due to their toxicological properties (e.g. monomethyl mercury, MMHg, which gained worldwide attention during the Minamata tragedy, and are not only known to be produced by microbial methylation within most anaerobic compartments of the environment, but also in the course of enzymatic transformation during human metabolism.85... 

The ethical need involved the distribution of fitting reward or punishment. Toward the end of the century, the critic Thomas Rymer gave to this concept the name "poetic justice." By poetic justice, he meant a kind of justice whereby the punishment fit the crime, and the characters received their just deserts by the end of the play. While the doctrine can be dangerous in the interpretation of tragedy, it is very useful when applied to comedy. 

The tragedy at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India in 1984 highlighted, among other issues, the critical need for careful monitoring of methyl isocyanate in the environment. 87 and 88 are both lumophore-spacer-secondary... 

It has been noted, especially since the thalidomide tragedy, that different chemical enantiomers can induce very different biochemical responses. The production of enantiomerically-pure compounds is critical to the pharmaceutical, agro-chemical and fine-chemical industries, and has fueled the need for enantioselective heterogeneous catalysis [1]. 

Here we see the crucial defect of the more rigorous neo-classical criticism it is too much occupied with technical details which do not really say very much about the quality of the work, but rather reveal the critic s attempts to claim an exclusive privilege in judgment, often based on very trivial details. Modern readers - and critics - are much more likely to sympathise with the ignorant fellows who applauded the tragedy because of its depiction of turbulent emotions. And, as it happens, we may note that Watson s Absolom is actually marked by tasteless rhetoric and monotonous versification ... 

Although little is known about Kyd s classical scholarship, it is striking that he translated the Padre di Pamiglia (1588) by Torquato Tasso, one of the Italian writers whose literary criticism responded to Aristotle s Poetics, and the tragedy Cornelie (1593-4), a Senecan closet drama by the classicising Erench author Robert Gamier. 

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