Interface Between Literature And Science

Author : Victoria Carpenter
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443877756

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Interface between Literature and Science by Victoria Carpenter Pdf

The boundaries of science and literature are permeable; they are continuously crossed and illuminated by a variety of narrative forms and their interpretations. Changes in our perception of the world are informed in equal measure by scientific and humanistic disciplines. This volume treats both literary and scientific texts as products of the human mind, therefore abiding by all the rules it creates, scientific and humanistic alike. The volume does not propose to replace all literary or discourse analysis with a cross-disciplinary science-based approach, but, rather, uses this theoretical stance when more conventional means fail to explain (or even explore) the intricacies of a text. It argues that scientific discourse can also be analysed through the prism of literary theories, since all texts are governed in varying measure by the unity of contexts that characterize their nature, the process of their creation, and their place in the cognitive realm of humanity. This approach will allow the nature and limitations of scientific research to be questioned, while opening up more venues to explore scientific creativity that crosses the subject boundaries of science and humanities. Latin American literature offers many examples of the interconnection between literary and scientific discourse. Notwithstanding the often explored relationship between Jorge Luis Borges’s literary themes and contemporary scientific discoveries, a more general question should be asked: is the influence of scientific thought a privilege of the select few or is it indeed an all-pervading experience in Latin American literary narrative from late modernism to present day? This book explores the texts that overtly incorporate scientific content or are structured in such a way that immediately reminds the reader of a scientific phenomenon; it will also examine the texts that are presented in such a way that a conventional literary analysis does not help penetrate the many narrative layers that the text comprises. The volume offers cross-disciplinary readings of such authors as Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, Ernesto Sábato and Gustavo Sainz, to name but a few.

Author : John H. Cartwright,Brian Baker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781851094639

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Literature and Science by John H. Cartwright,Brian Baker Pdf

A survey of the interaction between science and Anglo-American literature from the late medieval period to the 20th century, examining how authors, thinkers, and philosophers have viewed science in literary texts, and used science as a window to the future. Spanning six centuries, this survey of the interplay between science and literature in the West begins with Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe and includes commentary on key trends in contemporary literature. Beginning with the birth of science fiction, the authors examine the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne as well as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein within the context of a wider analysis of the impact of major historical developments like the Renaissance, the scientific revolution, the Enlightenment, and Romanticism. The book balances readings of literature with explanations of the impact of key scientific ideas. Focusing primarily on British and American literature, the book also takes an informed but accessible approach to the history of science, with seminal scientific works discussed in a critical rather than overly theoretical manner.

Author : Sidia Fiorato
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literature and science
ISBN : 3631558627

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The Relationship Between Literature and Science in John Banville's Scientific Tetralogy by Sidia Fiorato Pdf

Starting from the debate between the two cultures, the book analyzes the relationship between literature and science in the last years of the twentieth century in the light of scientific theories which universally underline both their indeterminacy and their lack of universal values (Relativity Theory, Quantum Mechanics, the Uncertainty Principle, Chaos Theory). Scientific theories are echoed in literary texts but also a reverse influence from literature to science has taken place. In his scientific tetralogy John Banville analyzes the figures of those scientists who contributed to a paradigm shift in the world view from the early modernity to the present. His interest is not exclusively focused on epistemology but rather on the creative mind of the scientist. Science appears to follow the same epiphanic creative process as literature in its understanding of, and theorizing upon, an enigmatic sort of reality.

Author : Ilse Nina Bulhof
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Science
ISBN : 9004096442

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“The” Language of Science by Ilse Nina Bulhof Pdf

In modern times science has avoided rhetorical and poetical forms. Its hallmarks were brevity and exactitude, with disdain for "non-functional" ornamentation. This book shows that the language of scientists does remain language and that a skillful use of its rhetorical and poetic aspects often determines the "facts" and the transmission of information. The exceptional literary qualities of Darwin's The Origin of Species are taken as a point in case. The importance of language in science has ontological implications: science can no longer be considered an action performed by a speaking subject on a mute object. Does the creative role of language in science mean that human beings "create" the world? The author emphatically rejects a conclusion which would degrade nature to mere malleable material at the mercy of human beings. A hermeneutical model for the relationship between knower and known is suggested: creative interaction between reader and text. The reader's responses actualise a text's meaning; in like manner, scientists give their responses to reality by actualising one of many possibilities. The hermeneutical ontology proposed in this book steers away from the rocks of realism and anti-realism.

Author : Sidia Fiorato
Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 082048735X

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The Relationship Between Literature and Science in John Banvillle's Scientific Tetralogy by Sidia Fiorato Pdf

Starting from the debate between the two cultures, the book analyzes the relationship between literature and science in the last years of the twentieth century in the light of scientific theories which universally underline both their indeterminacy and their lack of universal values (Relativity Theory, Quantum Mechanics, the Uncertainty Principle, Chaos Theory). Scientific theories are echoed in literary texts but also a reverse influence from literature to science has taken place. In his scientific tetralogy John Banville analyzes the figures of those scientists who contributed to a paradigm shift in the world view from the early modernity to the present. His interest is not exclusively focused on epistemology but rather on the creative mind of the scientist. Science appears to follow the same epiphanic creative process as literature in its understanding of, and theorizing upon, an enigmatic sort of reality.

Author : Peter Swirski
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773568372

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Between Literature and Science by Peter Swirski Pdf

Through close analysis of Eureka and The Purloined Letter, Swirski evaluates Poe's epistemological theses in the light of contemporary philosophy of science and presents literary interpretation as a cooperative game played by the author and reader, thereby illuminating how we read fiction. The analysis of Poe's little-studied Eureka provides the basis for his discussion of Lem's critique of scientific reductionism and futurological forecasts. Drawing on his own interviews with Lem as well as analysis of his works, Swirski considers the author's scenarios involving computers capable of creative acts and discusses their socio-cultural implications. His analysis leads to bold arguments about the nature of literature and its relation to a broad range of other disciplines.

Author : Martin Willis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137474414

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Literature and Science by Martin Willis Pdf

This Guide introduces literature and science as a vibrant field of critical study that is increasingly influencing both university curricula and future areas of investigation. Martin Willis explores the development of the genre and its surrounding criticism from the early modern period to the present day, focusing on key texts, topics and debates.

Author : Alice Jenkins,Gillian Rudd,Elaine Hobby,Brian Baker,Katy Price,Martin Willis,David Amigoni,Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843841784

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Literature and Science by Alice Jenkins,Gillian Rudd,Elaine Hobby,Brian Baker,Katy Price,Martin Willis,David Amigoni,Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

Essays exploring the complex relationship between literature and science.

Author : Márcia Diana Fernandes Lemos
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781443876056

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Exchanges between Literature and Science from the 1800s to the 2000s by Márcia Diana Fernandes Lemos Pdf

This collection of essays responds to the intense interest that the relations between the discourses of literature (and other cultural practices) and those of science have obtained throughout various fields of study. Spanning a period between the mid-nineteenth century and the twenty-first century, the work collected here is firmly focused on the cultural significance of scientific discoveries and practices, and especially on the manifold representations of science and scientists in literature and the arts. Its four sections develop from an initial moment of dwindling indefiniteness of borders between literature and the sciences to the historical perception of an increasing divide between “the two cultures,” to use C.P. Snow’s influential expression, as well as calls for a form of convergence or “consilience” in Edward Wilson’s words. The final section turns to the medical sciences, a porous scientific discipline in relation to the humanities, which suggests that consilience can already be found partially in specific areas. As such, this collection contributes towards critically extending that integration through the discussion of key literary representations of science, its promises, and its problems.

Author : Harry Raphael Garvin,James M. Heath
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838750516

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Science and Literature by Harry Raphael Garvin,James M. Heath Pdf

This issue explores the tensions between literature and the sciences, focusing on responses which see science as an alien ideology that threatens everything the arts hold dear, and on a more positive response that sees the sciences as providing new tools, viewpoints, and knowledge about the world.

Author : John Holmes
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781388341

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Science in Modern Poetry by John Holmes Pdf

Leading experts on modern poetry and on literature and science explore how poets have used scientific language in their poems, how poetry can offer new perspectives on science, and how the 'Two Cultures' can and have come together in the work of poets from Britain and Ireland, America and Australia.

Author : David Burchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351901789

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Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England by David Burchell Pdf

These essays throw new light on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds examine the agency of early modern poets, playwrights, essayists, philosophers, natural philosophers and artists in remaking their culture and reforming ideas about human understanding. Analyzing the ways in which the works of such diverse writers as Shakespeare, Bacon, Hobbes, Milton, Cavendish, Boyle, Pope and Behn related to contemporary epistemological debates, these essays move us toward a better understanding of interactions between the sciences and the humanities during a seminal phase in the emergence of modern Western thought.

Author : Patricia Novillo-Corvalán
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317584223

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Latin American and Iberian Perspectives on Literature and Medicine by Patricia Novillo-Corvalán Pdf

This is the first study to examine the representation of illness, disability, and cultural pathologies in modern and contemporary Iberian and Latin American literature. Innovative and interdisciplinary, the collection situates medicine as an important and largely overlooked discourse in these literatures, while also considering the social, political, religious, symbolic, and metaphysical dimensions underpinning illness. Investigating how Hispanic and Lusophone writers have reflected on the personal and cultural effects of illness, it raises central questions about how medical discourses, cultural pathologies, and the art of healing in general are represented. Essays pay particular attention to the ways in which these interdisciplinary dialogues chart new directions in the study of Hispanic and Lusophone cultures, and emerging disciplines such as the medical humanities. Addressing a wide range of themes and subjects including bioethics, neuroscience, psychosurgery, medical technologies, Darwinian evolution, indigenous herbal medicine, the rising genre of the pathography, and the ‘illness as metaphor’ trope, the collection engages with the discourses of cultural studies, gender studies, disability studies, comparative literature, and the medical humanities. This book enriches and stimulates scholarship in these areas by showing how much we still have to gain from interdisciplinary studies working at the intersections between the humanities and the sciences.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literature and science
ISBN : 0918024854

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Literature and Science by Aldous Huxley Pdf

Author : Brian T. Chandler
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684485215

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Science Fusion in Contemporary Mexican Literature by Brian T. Chandler Pdf

Science Fusion draws on new materialist theory to analyze the relationship between science and literature in contemporary works of fiction, poetry, and theater from Mexico. In this deft new study, Brian Chandler examines how a range of contemporary Mexican writers “fuse” science and literature in their work to rethink what it means to be human in an age of climate change, mass extinctions, interpersonal violence, femicide, and social injustice. The authors under consideration here—including Alberto Blanco, Jorge Volpi, Ignacio Padilla, Sabina Berman, Maricela Guerrero, and Elisa Díaz Castelo—challenge traditional divisions that separate human from nonhuman, subject from object, culture from nature. Using science and literature to engage topics in biopolitics, historiography, metaphysics, ethics, and ecological crisis in the age of the Anthropocene, works of science fusion offer fresh perspectives to address present-day sociocultural and environmental issues.