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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... living authors . All are published in the contemporary period , the 1980s and 1990s , as this century of alterations draws to a close.36 The degree of knowledge among these authors and the use they make of it varies greatly ; disparate ...
... living things , of matter " ; or , in more literary terms , of consciousness , of sex and of death , of Nature ( 72 ) . In this interplay of elements , knowledge is not opposed to but is a source of poetics : Three writers above all ...
... living things , of matter . " All literature worthy of the name is useful by nature because it aims at elucidation , " affirms the protagonist of Rio's 1995 novel Manhattan Terminus.52 He is a fiction writer with a notable intellectual ...
... living author . The Statue of Liberty , a detective story centered on the debate between global free enterprise and the French notion of public service , has little to do with the elucidating literature that is the focus of this ...
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