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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... references and index . ISBN 0-7914-3973–9 ( alk . paper ) . — ISBN 0-7914-3974-7 ( pbk . : alk . paper ) 1. Rio , Michel - Criticism and interpretation . 2. Rio , Michel— Knowledge - Science . 3. Science in literature . 4. Scientists in ...
... reference to matricide by the natural and social sciences and the impact on thought of the new physics . The ... references in these paragraphs to one of the standard texts on structuralism , contemporary to the movement I discuss ...
... references to Poe's story and Bach's music , four 27 Graham Swift , Waterland ( London : William Heinemann , 1983 ) . 28 29 Swift , Ever After ( London : Picador , 1992 ) . John Banville , Kepler ( London : Martin Secker & Warburg ...
... fiction , this volume aims at a comprehensive grammar , a unified rhetoric of logic and human sensi- bility , of the mythologies and melancholies of knowledge . Editor's Note For ease of reference , Michel Rio's major 26 Margery Arent ...
... reference , Michel Rio's major works are listed here in their order of publication . Each work is preceded by the abbreviation that is used for it in the essays . All titles are given here in the original French , with the English ...