The third culture : literature and science / edited by Elinor S. Shaffer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shaffer, E. S. (Elinor S.)

Series:

European Cultures

European cultures ; v. 9

European Cultures : Studies in Literature and the Arts ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and science.

Science in literature.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2010

Other Title:

Literature and science

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

C.P. Snow's notion of a possible ""third nation"" in which the literary and the scientific culture interact has been explored in new ways by theorists on both sides of the divide. This text presents their theories.

Contents:

Front matter

Introduction: The Third Culture - Negotiating the 'two cultures' / SHAFFER, E. S.

Theoretical Approaches

Has Nature a Future? / BEER, GILLIAN

Serendipity in Poetry and Physics / VALDES, MARIO / GYON, ÉTIENNE

Sense and Nonsense of Chaos Theory in Literary Studies / PEER, WILLIE VAN

Romanticism

Goethe and the Language of Science / NEUBAUER, JOHN

The Aesthetics of Magnetism: Science, Philosophy and Poetry in the Dialogue Between Goethe and Schelling / ADLER, JEREMY

"Hollin's Liebeleben": Arnim's Transmutation of Science into Literature / BURWICK, ROSWITHA / BURWICK, FREDERICK

Novalis, Ritter and 'Experiment': A Tradition of 'Active Empiricism' / HENDERSON, FERGUS

The Death of The Poet: Coleridge and the Science of Logic / MERRISON, JOANNE

Mont Blanc's Mysterious Voice: Shelley and Huttonian Earth Science / LEASK, NIGEL J.

Writing Medical Identities 1780-1820 / JORDANOVA, LUDMILLA

Modernism and Post-Modernism

Chemical Solutions: Scientific Paradigms in Nietzsche and Proust / LARGE, DUNCAN

Beyond All Certainty: Wittgenstein and Turing: An Account of a Philosophical Dialogue on Skill and Technology / GØRANZON, Bo

Natural History: The Retro-Victorian Novel / SHUTTLEWORTH, SALLY

"The World Before Eyes": Calvin, Barthes and Science / WALLACE, JEFF

Bibliography

Figures and Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Index

Back matter

Notes:

Papers, most of which were originally presented at a London colloquium which was one of a series held by the Literary Theory Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-304) and index.

ISBN:

9783110882575

3110882574

OCLC:

850188200