Postmodern Postures: Literature, Science and the Two Cultures Debate - Couverture rigide

Cordle, Daniel

 
9780754600954: Postmodern Postures: Literature, Science and the Two Cultures Debate
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0754600955 ISBN 13 : 9780754600954
Editeur : Routledge, 1999

Synopsis

In 1996 the physicist Alan Sokal planted a hoax article in the journal Social Text, mimicking the social constructionist view of science popular in the humanities, and sparked into life the 'science wars' which had been rumbling throughout the 1990s. Postmodern Postures puts this contemporary controversy into the context of earlier debates about the 'two cultures', between F.R. Leavis and C.P. Snow, and Mathew Arnold and T.H. Huxley. Through an interrogation of interdisciplinary approaches to literature and science, and a discussion of the arguments surrounding postmodern culture, the book formulates a literary critical methodology for literature/science criticism, highlighting both the benefits and the limitations of attempts to link the two cultures. Three case studies, focused through the issues of knowledge, identity and time, put this methodology into practice, showing how ideas resonate through the culture between literature and science.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

À propos de l?auteur

Daniel Cordle, Nottingham Trent University, UK

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0754600955
ISBN 13 
9780754600954
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
216
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible