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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... tion , were one , the explication of the world in an encyclopedic sense . Natural sciences and social sciences join literary studies here in an experi- ment in interdisciplinary criticism . The experiment was born of matricide , and in ...
... tion Editor Diane Ganeles of SUNY Press , and to acknowledge my special appreciation to Mihai I. Spariosu of the University of Georgia ; it is due to his resolve that this book , first published in French by Editions du Seuil , came to ...
... tion " ( Lane , 37 ) , literature is being " scienced " : " mathematics " comes to literary study . Edgar Allan Poe is proven right : out of mathematics , poetry is born . " 1 The euphoria does not last . Reactions , a number of which ...
... tion of science , not science as best - seller but the selling of science , or science for selling , its habitat the readily for - profit mass media and T- shirts . Popularization becomes utter commercialization : consumer pro- ducts ...
... tion explicit in his title , passes through an encyclopedic range of subjects from the economy and space exploration to planetary meteorology , using chaos theory as a model for the relation between big and small , near and far ; he is ...