Melancholies of Knowledge: Literature in the Age of ScienceMargery Arent Safir, Stephen Jay Gould, State University of New York SUNY Press, 1 בינו׳ 1999 - 205 עמודים "We need the integration of our disciplines, the end to false dichotomizations, the recognition that we cannot grasp human uniqueness until we both practice art and understand science. We must celebrate a novelist who can teach scientists so much about evolution with a literary ploy rooted in anachronism--and we must tolerate a scientist who chooses to pay his respects by writing for a book of literary criticism." --from the essay by Stephen Jay Gould Offering interdisciplinary criticism and methodology, Melancholies of Knowledge includes essays by scientists, social scientists, and literary critics on the work of the French novelist Michel Rio. It provides a non-specialist's description of the most important scientific changes in the century--easily understandable and related to issues of concern in the humanities--as well as an opportunity to see how these scientific changes are being incorporated into literary discourse, into the human element outside of theory or the laboratory. In presenting a new methodology that proposes true interdisciplinarity, Melancholies of Knowledge identifies a new class of contemporary fiction and, as a test case, provides the first serious criticism of a major contemporary French author. |
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... death is not a transformation , " he says , " but a complete disap- pearance of the essential , and that consciousness , along with all its pro- ducts - identity , memory , invention , feeling , logic , morality , aesthetics- dies with ...
... death in 1970 ; Jacques Derrida , structuralism's enfant terrible and later nemesis , would arrive years later ) . " Rio's early essays bear full witness : the jargon is telltale , the sub- jects as well , the titles " Cadre , plan ...
... death , of Nature ( 72 ) . In this interplay of elements , knowledge is not opposed to but is a source of poetics : Three writers above all have impressed me as outstanding com- posers in the French language : Gautier , Hugo and ...
... Death : An Investi- gation by Francis Malone ) 1998 Theater О HW L'Ouroboros ( The Ouroboros ) 1985 Baleine pied - de - poule ( Hound's - tooth Whale ) 1990 Critical Essays DL Rêve de logique : essais critiques ( Dreams of Logic ...
... Death : An Investigation by Francis Malone , arrived too late for any consideration here beyond a bibliographical mention . Any new publication necessarily alters the way in which one reads the work of an author ; it is the risk of ...