Format:
Online-Ressource (vi, 323 p)
ISBN:
9783110882575
,
3110142929
,
9783110142921
Series Statement:
European cultures v. 9
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-304) and index
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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
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Introduction: The Third Culture - Negotiating the 'two cultures'; Theoretical Approaches; Has Nature a Future?; Serendipity in Poetry and Physics; Sense and Nonsense of Chaos Theory in Literary Studies; Romanticism; Goethe and the Language of Science; The Aesthetics of Magnetism: Science, Philosophy and Poetry in the Dialogue Between Goethe and Schelling; "Hollin's Liebeleben": Arnim's Transmutation of Science into Literature; Novalis, Ritter and 'Experiment': A Tradition of 'Active Empiricism'; The Death of The Poet: Coleridge and the Science of Logic
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Mont Blanc's Mysterious Voice: Shelley and Huttonian Earth ScienceWriting Medical Identities 1780-1820; Modernism and Post-Modernism; Chemical Solutions: Scientific Paradigms in Nietzsche and Proust; Beyond All Certainty: Wittgenstein and Turing: An Account of a Philosophical Dialogue on Skill and Technology; Natural History: The Retro-Victorian Novel; "The World Before Eyes": Calvin, Barthes and Science; Bibliography; Figures and Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Index
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110142929
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110142921
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110882575
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783110882575
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The third culture: literature and science Berlin [u.a.] : de Gruyter, 1998 ISBN 3110142929
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Literatur
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Wissenschaft
;
Geschichte 1790-1920
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