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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Literature and science"”.
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Toward a Posthuman Ecology: Evolutionary Aesthetics in Transatlantic Romanticism
… traces the vibrant interchange between Romantic literature and science in the nineteenth century that necessitated new forms of aesthetics. I argue that Romantic writers and scientists co-created a new way of understanding nature that moved away from hierarchical anthropocentrism toward what I …
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Female healers and the boundaries of medical practice in post-plague England
This study is an exploration of the unlicensed and semi-official medical activities of women in England from 1348 to 1500. The emphasis is placed on the diversity of women's medical practice in both urban and rural areas. Some of the issues to be addressed are: the importance of herbalists and wet …
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Objective Poetics: Victorian Literature and the Science of Aesthetics
… I attempt to demonstrate how both Romantic and Victorian literature and science came together to produce the idea of “objectivity.” Whereas prior naturalists had tended to embrace an epistemic ideal of what they called “truth to nature”—which involved manipulating observed phenomena to …
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“The Seventies Meet the Twenties”: Charlotte Wolff as writer, public figure and “period piece”
Between 1969 and 1980 Dr Charlotte Wolff (1897-1986) wrote a memoir, a novel and an autobiography – alongside two psychologically focused works which challenged assumptions regarding gender and sexuality. In this period she also made the difficult decision to visit Berlin, the city which had once …
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Children of men: the American jeremiad in twentieth and twenty-first century science fiction and film
This dissertation considers the dynamic and resilient influence of the jeremiad, an early American religious and literary mode, on contemporary American literature and culture. It argues that the polemical, dystopian, and apocalyptic narratives so abundant in twentieth-century literature and film …
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Strata, Soma, Psyche: Narrative and the Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century Science of Lyell, Darwin, and Freud
My dissertation, “Strata, Soma, Psyche: Narrative and the Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century Science of Lyell, Darwin, and Freud,” contributes new research to the diverse field mapping the intersections of science and literature in the nineteenth century. Although scholars such as Gillian Beer …
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Literature Meets Biology: An Evolutionary Approach to Literary Studies
… which uses scientific perspectives to look at literature. It first gives an overview of the current state of English departments and their decline in numbers, budgets, and cultural relevancy, mostly due to outdated modes of literary criticism and theory. It then introduces evocriticism as a new …
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Literature Meets Biology: An Evolutionary Approach to Literary Studies
… which uses scientific perspectives to look at literature. It first gives an overview of the current state of English departments and their decline in numbers, budgets, and cultural relevancy, mostly due to outdated modes of literary criticism and theory. It then introduces evocriticism as a new …
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Patrick Geddes and the Celtic Renascence of the 1890s
… a time of change in nationalism, culture, art, science and religion. Nations and groups grew into defining themselves through movements such as Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau. Some groups sought to define themselves through reviving aspects of their old cultures as inspiration. For instance, …
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Literature and Education: Recalling Matthew Arnold
… spirit; to search for their law, not to wander among them at random; to judge by the rule of reason, not by the impulse of prejudice or caprice" (The Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold, Vol. 1, p. 21). But Arnold finds a critical opposition between man's instinctive efforts to develop …
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A regenerate science : paradigms for science and theology in recent American fiction.
… I examine four paradigms for integrating science and theology as seen in literary fiction. First, I offer a theoretical approach to integrating science and theology, show some recent anxieties about science and religion, and provide a short history of literature and science. Second, I …
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The convergence of science and literature : a study of myth in modern America
… (M.A.)--Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of English, 1970
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Literature as affected by science
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No "Idle Fancy:" The Imagination's Work in Poetry and Natural Philosophy from Sidney to Sprat
… that natural philosophy, what today we call "science," emerged as the dominant authority over knowledge by appropriating the poet's imagination.</p><p>The poet's imagination had long revealed the divine hand that marked nature--a task that, as Sidney put it, merited the poet a "peerlesse" rank …
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Deciphering the Silence: A Literary Journey to Alice E. Kober
… is stored today. 48 hours of shades of green and mustardy yellow, 48 hours of train whistles, drip coffee and blunt panic attacks from being tucked away under the plastic roof of the compartment at night. 48 hours of hope and expectations regarding the archive material, of finding what has …
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Invisible Mathematics in Italo Calvino's Le città invisibili
… mathematical concepts as an essential structural and thematic element in Italo Calvino's Le città invisibili. The author`s conception of literature as a combinatorial art, intrinsically mathematical itself, is the point of departure. Focal to the study is Calvino's interest in that which is an …
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Spaces of the Ear: Literature, Media, and the Science of Sound, 1870-1930
… embodiment across the diverse fields of literature and science in the historical period beginning with the Franco-Prussian War and ending with the introduction of early information theory in the late 1920s. In opposition to popular accounts of changes in listening practices around 1900, …
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The Ethics of Collective Knowledge Production: The Individual and Club Membership in Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century Narrative
… a wider cast of characters. I show how authors (and readers) use the literary imaginary to weigh the balance of power between independent thought and social belonging, between the influence of the one vs. the many, in an atmosphere of gradual democratisation. I argue that fictional …
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A coat of ashes: A collection of poems, incorporating a metafictional narrative - and - Poetry, Daoism, physics and systems theory: a poetics: A set of critical essays
… how poetry might bring together spiritual and scientific discourses, focusing primarily on philosophical Daoism (Taoism) and contemporary physics. Systems theory (the science of complex and self-organising systems) is a secondary focus of the creative work and is used metaphorically in …