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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... seem to prescribe for the individual observer an extraordinary role , one never dreamed of by Newton : influencing the very nature of physical reality . On the other hand , there is relativity , banishing the notion of universal time ...
... seem that matter , like the Cheshire Cat , is becoming gradually diaphanous and nothing is left but the grin , caused , presumably , by amusement at those who still think it is there . " And I have not even touched upon the implications ...
... seem to be in relation , to communicate , even when the two writers are far apart in space and the letters do not coincide in time . Having once been together , there is permanent relation and memory . Otherwise put , the theory of ...
... seem particularly relevant : the accusations that structuralism ignores history , and that it eliminates cause as a prime consideration . Whether as reaction or not , the relation to time and to causality is integral to Rio's fiction ...
... seems to me indispensable in this kind of methodology . Taken together , the eight essays not only shed different lights on the same body of fiction , but reveal recurring issues and themes among themselves . Signaled by the cross ...