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9780822365761

Literature and Science : Cultural Forms, Conceptual Exchanges

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822365761

  • ISBN10:

    0822365766

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-01-01
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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The goal of this special issue ofAmerican Literatureis to encourage scholars in both the sciences and the humanities to estrange themselves from their regular ways of thinking. Committed to understanding what each discipline has to teach the other, the contributors explore the changes in topics, approaches, and methodologies in the sciences, technology and the humanities that surface when scholars take seriously the mandate to consider the basic assumptions of each field from the other point of view.The essays address the mutual impact of literature and science through a range of issues: "geek novels" as a subgenre of literature about science, the relationship of narrative form to risk analysis and ecological disaster, the impact of realism and contemporary developments in neurology and brain biology, and the use of technology in the humanities. The essays also examine how the humanities explore scientific issues such asin vitrofertilization and human existence, cloning and molecular biology, and the concept of time.Contributors.Jay Clayton, Wai Chee Dimock, N. Katherine Hayles, Ursula Heise, Randall Knoper, Martha Nell Smith, Stephanie Turner, Priscilla Wald, Robyn Wiegman

Table of Contents

Preface: Literature and Science: Cultural Forms, Conceptual Exchanges 705(10)
Wai Chee Dimock
Priscilla Wald
American Literary Realism and Nervous ``Reflexion''
715(32)
Randall Knoper
Toxins, Drugs, and Global Systems: Risk and Narrative in the Contemporary Novel
747(32)
Ursula Heise
Saving the Subject: Remediation in House of Leaves
779(28)
N. Katherine Hayles
Convergence of the Two Cultures: A Geek's Guide to Contemporary Literature
807(26)
Jay Clayton
Computing: What's American Literary Study Got to Do with IT?
833(26)
Martha Nell Smith
Intimate Publics: Race, Property, and Personhood
859(28)
Robyn Wiegman
Jurassic Park Technology in the Bioinformatics Economy: How Cloning Narratives Negotiate the Telos of DNA
887(24)
Stephanie Turner
Non-Newtonian Time: Robert Lowell, Roman History, Vietnam War
911(22)
Wai Chee Dimock
Announcements 933(2)
Index to Volume 74 935

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