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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... 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 , 1981 ) ; The Newton ...
... stories , socio- logical knowledge of a milieu , geographic knowledge of placement , psycho- logical knowledge of character ; their “ action ” in substantial degree is cen- tered around debate . 38 This is not science fiction , not ...
... story itself . While one can speak of " ideas in the air " that manifest themselves in diverse domains in any given period , caution is needed in attributing a specific theory to a specific author . Lautréamont is now studied with ...
... 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 collection ; Manhattan Terminus , on the other hand , is ...
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