Literature and Science
Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780918024855
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Narrating Life – Experiments with Human and Animal Bodies in Literature, Science and Art
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-02-02
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9004312072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNarrating Life explores the relationship between literature, science and the arts and the way in which they are informed by the process of narrating life. More specifically, it asks: how do literature, science and the arts affect and are affected by the emergence of a critical culture of biopolitics and its rhetorical figurations? Its topicality for literary and cultural studies lies therefore in its exploration of the question: to what extent could narratives of life (or life-writing) be understood as a special practice through which to access the contemporary discussion about biopolitics with its strategies of immunity, mutation, and contagion. The individual contributions address these questions through focusing on new forms of life writing in traditional and new media, science writing and artistic and critical creative practice. In doing so, they also explore and redraw the boundaries between fictional and factual experimental practices. Contributors: Amelie Björck, Elisabeth Friis, Holly Henry, Stefan Herbrechter, Tom Idema, Moritz Ingwersen, Cristina Iuli, Tanja Nusser, Angela Rawlings, Manuela Rossini, Dorion Sagan, Laura Shackelford, Amalie Smith, Marianne Sommer, Steve Tomasula, David Wagner, Jeff Wallace, Dominik Zechner.
Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature
Author: Elizabeth Spiller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-05-27
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1139451987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScience, Reading, and Renaissance Literature brings together key works in early modern science and imaginative literature (from the anatomy of William Harvey and the experimentalism of William Gilbert to the fictions of Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser and Margaret Cavendish). The book documents how what have become our two cultures of belief define themselves through a shared aesthetics that understands knowledge as an act of making. Within this framework, literary texts gain substance and intelligibility by being considered as instances of early modern knowledge production. At the same time, early modern science maintains strong affiliations with poetry because it understands art as a basis for producing knowledge. In identifying these interconnections between literature and science, this book contributes to scholarship in literary history, history of reading and the book, science studies and the history of academic disciplines.
Chaos Imagined
Author: Martin Meisel
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2016-01-05
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 0231540469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe stories we tell in our attempt to make sense of the world—our myths and religion, literature and philosophy, science and art—are the comforting vehicles we use to transmit ideas of order. But beneath the quest for order lies the uneasy dread of fundamental disorder. True chaos is hard to imagine and even harder to represent. In this book, Martin Meisel considers the long effort to conjure, depict, and rationalize extreme disorder, with all the passion, excitement, and compromises the act provokes. Meisel builds a rough history from major social, psychological, and cosmological turning points in the imagining of chaos. He uses examples from literature, philosophy, painting, graphic art, science, linguistics, music, and film, particularly exploring the remarkable shift in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from conceiving of chaos as disruptive to celebrating its liberating and energizing potential. Discussions of Sophocles, Plato, Lucretius, Calderon, Milton, Haydn, Blake, Faraday, Chekhov, Faulkner, Wells, and Beckett, among others, are matched with incisive readings of art by Brueghel, Rubens, Goya, Turner, Dix, Dada, and the futurists. Meisel addresses the revolution in mapping energy and entropy and the manifold effect of thermodynamics. He then uses this chaotic frame to elaborate on purpose, mortality, meaning, and mind.
Higher Superstition
Author: Paul R. Gross
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1997-12-03
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1421404877
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe widely acclaimed response to the postmodernists attacks on science, with a new afterword. With the emergence of "cultural studies" and the blurring of once-clear academic boundaries, scholars are turning to subjects far outside their traditional disciplines and areas of expertise. In Higher Superstition scientists Paul Gross and Norman Levitt raise serious questions about the growing criticism of science by humanists and social scientists on the "academic left." This edition of Higher Superstition includes a new afterword by the authors.
The Art of Literature, Art in Literature
Author: Magdalena Bleinert-Coyle
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788323337799
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese twelve essays examine the exchange between literature and the visual arts (mainly painting), which, since the turn of the nineteenth century, has gained prominence in literary criticism. Reading modern and postmodern texts, the authors consider literary works next to the artworks the poets and writers invoke. Such instances of artistic synthesis highlight evolving perspectives on art and literature and the expressive possibilities offered by the simultaneity of words and images.
Material World
Author: Guy Hedreen
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-05-31
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 900446137X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScholars from ancient and early modern studies, art history, literary criticism, philosophy, and the history of science explore the interplay between nature, science, and art in influential ancient texts and their reception in the Renaissance.
The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
Author: Robert Walsh
Publisher:
Published: 1835
Total Pages: 686
ISBN-13:
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Author: Harold Varmus
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780393061284
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe nobel prize winning scientist and former director of the National Institue of Health recalls the events of his life and career in science, in an autobiography that also incorporates scientific information about cancer biology and issues in public health.
How Literature Plays with the Brain
Author: Paul B. Armstrong
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2013-09-15
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1421410036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor the neuroscientific community, the study suggests that different areas of research—the neurobiology of vision and reading, the brain-body interactions underlying emotions—may be connected to a variety of aesthetic and literary phenomena. For critics and students of literature, the study engages fundamental questions within the humanities: What is aesthetic experience? What happens when we read a literary work? How does the interpretation of literature relate to other ways of knowing?
