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Connecting literature and science / Jay A. Labinger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Labinger, Jay A., author.
- Series:
- Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.
- Literature and science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Routledge, [2021]
- Summary:
- "This work presents a case for engagement between the sciences and the humanities - focusing particularly on literature- and an empirical, non-theory-based approach thereto. Written from the perspective of a professional chemist, it seeks to demonstrate that the connections between those fields of intellectual activity are far more significant than anything that separates them"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Endorsement
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Epigraphs
- 1 Introduction
- About This Book
- My Origins Story
- Why Literature and Science?
- Notes
- 2 A Brief History of Literature and Science
- Huxley vs. Arnold
- Snow vs. Leavis
- Literature vs. Science?
- The Emergence of L&
- S
- L&
- S Today
- 3 The Science Wars
- The Rise of Science Studies
- Waging-and Calming-the Science Wars
- Casualties of War?
- Note
- 4 Models of Engagement
- Metaphor
- Analogy
- Connection
- S From the Science Side?
- 5 Encoding an Infinite Message: Richard Powers's The Gold Bug Variations
- 6 Is That a Coded Message? It May Not Be So Simple!
- More On Code and Simplicity
- Is the World Really Simple?
- How Do We Know Whether an Experimental Observation Is a Coded Message or Just Noise?
- Distinguishing Message From Noise in Some Works of (Mostly South American) Literature
- 7 Found in Translation
- Science in Translation/Translation in Science
- Models of Chemical Bonding
- Translating Molecular Structure
- 8 Entropy as Time's (Double-Headed) Arrow in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia
- What Is Entropy?
- Entropy in Literature
- Science and the Theater: The Second Law in Arcadia
- 9 Chirality and Life
- Autopoiesis and the Nature and Origins of Life
- Chirality and Its Role in Life
- How Could Chirality Have Arisen?
- 10 Making New Life
- A (Highly Selective) History of New Life in Biology and Literature
- The 21st-Century Golem
- The (Re)Making of Mice and Men
- 11 The End of Irony and/or the End of Science?
- The End of Science?
- Irony and Self-Reference
- World Change and the End of Irony in Literature
- 12 Conclusion.
- Note
- Appendix 1 Some Details of the Chemistry
- Appendix 2 Suggestions for Further Reading
- 1 Bibliographic Compilations
- 2 Encyclopedias, Handbooks, Texts
- 3 Essay Collections: Monographs
- 4 Essay Collections: Focused Journal Issues
- Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-00-319718-3
- 1-000-47292-2
- 1-003-19718-3
- 9781003197188
- OCLC:
- 1281981126
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