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1 online resource (vi, 323 pages) |
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European cultures ; v. 9 |
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European cultures ; v. 9.
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Introduction: the third culture: negotiating the 'two cultures' / E.S. Shaffer -- Has nature a future? / Gillian Beer -- Serendipity in poetry and physics / Mario Valdés, Étienne Gyon -- Sense and nonsense of chaos theory in literary studies / Willie van Peer -- Goethe and the language of science / John Neubauer -- The aesthetics of magnetism: science, philosophy and poetry in the dialogue between Goethe and Schelling / Jeremy Adler -- "Hollin's Liebeleben": Arnim's transmutation of science into literature / Roswitha Burwick, Frederick Burwick -- Novalis, Ritter and 'experiment': a tradition of 'active empiricism' / Fergus Henderson -- The death of the poet: Coleridge and the science of logic / Joanne Merrison -- Mont Blanc's mysterious voice: Shelley and Huttonian earth science / Nigel J. Leask -- Writing medical identities 1780-1820 / Ludmilla Jordanova -- Chemical solutions: scientific paradigms in Nietzsche and Proust / Duncan Large --Beyond all certainty: Wittgenstein and Turing: an account of a philosophical dialogue on skill and technology / Bo Gøranzon / Natural history: the retro-Victorian novel / Sally Shuttleworth -- "The world before eyes": Calvin, Barthes and science / Jeff Wallace |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-304) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Literature and science.
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Science in literature.
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Literature, Modern -- History and criticism
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Literature and science
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Literature, Modern
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Science in literature
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Wissenschaft
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Literatur
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Natuurfilosofie.
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Letterkunde.
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Natuurwetenschappen.
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Interdisciplinair onderzoek.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shaffer, E. S. (Elinor S.), editor.
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| ISBN |
9783110882575 |
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3110882574 |
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