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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... essay ; and to the French Ministry of Culture , whose grant permitted George Craig's splendid translation of several of the essays in this collection . Finally , I would like to thank Acquisitions Editor James Peltz and Produc- tion ...
... Michael Lane ( New York : Basic Books , 1970 ) . The collection includes essays by , among others , Roland Barthes , Claude Lévi - Strauss , Jakobson , and Saussure . ones . Lévi - Strauss , moreover , will hold 4 Margery Arent Safir.
... Essays , trans . Richard Howard ( Evanston , Ill .: Northwestern University Press , 1972 ) , 258 . " See , for example , Edgar Allan Poe , " The Philosophy of Composition , " in Edgar Allan Poe : Essays and Reviews ( New York : The ...
... essays , and their book titles are illuminating : Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony or The Enchanted Loom or La Chair et le Diable ( Flesh and the Devil ) .15 Within this upscale popularization , a subcategory ...
... essays would not have been the same had this upscale popularization not made of scientific publication the privileged space of discovery . But there is also downscale popularization , finding its element not in universities and ...