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Author Maniez, Claire

Title Science and American Literature in the 20th and 21st Centuries : From Henry Adams to John Adams
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012

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Description 1 online resource (213 pages)
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; PART II; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; PART III; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; PART IV; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CONTRIBUTORS
Summary Since its origin, American literature has always had an uneasy relationship with science: born at a time when science was becoming a profession, it repeatedly referred to it, implicitly or explicitly, in order to assert its difference or, on the contrary, to gain a certain form of legitimacy. The purpose of this book is to show how scientific discourse informs literary writing, and to consider the relationship the two types of discourse have maintained: mutual metaphorization, questioning or ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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SUBJECT Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd
Subject Literature and science -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Literature and science -- United States -- History -- 21st century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Literature and science
Literatur
Wissenschaft Motiv
United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Ludot-Vlasak, Ronan
Dumas, Frederic
ISBN 9781443835466
1443835463
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9781283436540