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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"science and literature"”.
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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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Descending caves : descent narratives and the subterranean science and literature of the long eighteenth century, 1680 - 1830
Caves form a major element in both scientific and literary writing in the long eighteenth century and function as a crucial part in the transformation of the perception of wild mountain landscapes. Despite this, the role of caves has been critically neglected. This thesis re-examines the writing of …
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Integrating science through literature
Whole language method--Integration of science and literature--Language centered orientation--Integrated curriculum.
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Integrating science through literature
Whole language method--Integration of science and literature--Language centered orientation--Integrated curriculum.
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Stories of Miscegenation: Fact and Fiction of Interracial Life and Art
… is unconsciously informed by the same pseudo-science that is in dialogue with American literature, wonders what is real and looks to the biographical for comparison to the imaginary of literature. What she finds is a landscape of images and counterimages that suggest that the real of …
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Protecting Systems of Nature and Gender: Ecofeminism in Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer and Ruth Ozeki's All Over Creation
… the disciplines of politics, philosophy, science, and literature – all of which are embedded in the fiction of Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer and Ruth Ozeki’s All Over Creation. In this thesis, I consider the authors’ use of scientific evidence to engage readers with their rhetorical …
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Turbulent Bodies: Disruptive Materiality in American Painting, 1880-1940
… (1836-1910), Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847-1917), and John Marin (1870-1953). It situates their practices in the context of late-nineteenth and twentieth-century American culture by thinking of painting as a phenomenal experience shaped by beliefs and attitudes towards the material world and the …
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R.M. Renfield: The Missing Link in the Degeneration of Humans into Vampires in Bram Stoker's Dracula
… of the human species pervaded society, science, and literature, including Bram Stoker’s <em>Dracula. </em>Previous scholarship has pointed out the influence of contemporary degeneration and criminological theory on the vampire characters, specifically Dracula. This paper looks at how …
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Fossil Poetry, theBirth of Geology, and the Romantic Imagination, 1790-1860
… two disciplines, their shared 'matrix.' Poetry and geology continually intersected throughout the infancy of the science, with geologists admiring the power and importance of poetic truth and perception, and poetry responding to the challenges posed by geologists to the human relation to nature. …
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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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A Reassessment of the Work of Arthur O’Shaughnessy
… collections of poetry published between 1870 and 1881, as well as a naturalist in the British Museum from the age of nineteen until his death. The volumes of poetry attracted critical attention at their publication, but his enduring legacy has been restricted to a small number of anthologised …
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Fulfilling roles: Midland women, developing roles and identities C.1760-1860
This thesis examines the lives of a group of Midland women in the period c. 1760-1860. They were the wives, sisters, daughters and mothers of the middle-class entrepreneurial and professional men of the region. During this period the Midlands produced individuals who expanded production and …
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Le laboratoire épistolaire dans les oeuvres scientifiques de la marquise du Châtelet
… community: the Cartesians, the Newtonians, and the Leibnizians. According to the accepted physics argued by Fontenelle, Descartes, Malebranche, and Mairan, momentum, not force, was the essential quantity of motion. While Newtonians and Leibnizians agreed upon the significance of gravity and …
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Le laboratoire épistolaire dans les oeuvres scientifiques de la marquise du Châtelet
… community: the Cartesians, the Newtonians, and the Leibnizians. According to the accepted physics argued by Fontenelle, Descartes, Malebranche, and Mairan, momentum, not force, was the essential quantity of motion. While Newtonians and Leibnizians agreed upon the significance of gravity and …
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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 …