Literature and Science

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Strange Science

Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age

By Lara Pauline Karpenko & Shalyn Rae Claggett
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literature and Science, Cultural Studies, History, Intellectual History

A fascinating look at scientific inquiry during the Victorian period and the shifting boundary between mainstream and unorthodox sciences of the time

Fractured Borders

Reading Women's Cancer Literature

By Mary K. DeShazer
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, Literature and Science

Looks at the ways that literary artists have responded to women's cancer through poetry, drama, fiction, autobiography, and environmental writing

The DNA Mystique

The Gene as a Cultural Icon

By Dorothy Nelkin & M. Susan Lindee
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Literary Studies, Literature and Science, History, Cultural Studies
Series: Conversations in Medicine and Society

Explores the values, assumptions, and consequences of the circulation of DNA in popular culture

Mapping Michel Serres

By Niran Abbas
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literature and Science, European Literature, Cultural Studies, Philosophy
Series: Studies in Literature and Science

International scholars shed new light on the work of renowned French philosopher Michel Serres

Architexts of Memory

Literature, Science, and Autobiography

By Evelyne Ender
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Literature and Science, Modern Literature, Psychology

Offers a powerful model that uses literature to help fathom the nature of remembrance

On SF

By Thomas M. Disch
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Literature and Science

A last judgment on the genre from science fiction's foremost critic

Power and Knowledge

Astrology, Physiognomics, and Medicine under the Roman Empire

By Tamsyn Barton
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Studies, Literature and Science, Cultural Studies
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Offers insight into the relationship between knowledge and power in ancient times--and science and politics in our own

Rethinking Reality

Lucretius and the Textualization of Nature

By Duncan F. Kennedy
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literature and Science, Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Studies in Literature and Science

A clear, concise introduction to current debates on the relationship of representation and reality in science studies

Staging Consciousness

Theater and the Materialization of Mind

By William W. Demastes
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Literature and Science, American Literature
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How theater has challenged the mind/body dualism that underpins much of Western thought

The Knowable and the Unknowable

Modern Science, Nonclassical Thought, and the "Two Cultures"

By Arkady Plotnitsky
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literature and Science, Cultural Studies, Education, Higher Education
Series: Studies in Literature and Science

A welcome intervention in the science vs. humanities debate

Othermindedness

The Emergence of Network Culture

By Michael Thomas Joyce
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Literature and Science, Media Studies, New Media
Series: Studies in Literature and Science

Meditations on network culture, hypertext, the geography of cyberspace, and interactive film

High Wired

On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs

Edited by Cynthia Ann Haynes & Jan Rune Holmevik
Subjects: Education, Composition, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Literature and Science

An indispensible guide to the technical, pedagogical, and theoretical aspects of educational MOOs

Energy Forms

Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics

By Bruce Clarke
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literature and Science, 19th Century Literature, Education, Higher Education

The interplay of literature and physics that led to acceptance of the theory of relativity

Networking

Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century

By Laura Christine Otis
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literature and Science, 19th Century Literature, Media Studies, New Media, British and Irish Literatures
Series: Studies in Literature and Science

An interdisciplinary study that traces contemporary notions of "the web" to their origins long before the Internet came into being

The End of Books--or Books Without End?

Reading Interactive Narratives

By Jane Yellowlees Douglas
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Literary Studies, American Literature, Literature and Science

An exploration of the possibilities of hypertext fiction as art form and entertainment

Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin

By Robert Faggen
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Literature and Science, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

A revealing look at Darwin's influence on the American poet Robert Frost

Dripping Dry

Literature, Politics and Water in the Desert Southwest

By David Nathan Cassuto
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literature and Science, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Nature/Environment, Natural Resources
Series: Studies in Literature and Science

Explores the convergences of U.S. water policy and the literature of the American West

Analogical Thinking

Post-Enlightenment Understanding in Language, Collaboration, and Interpretation

By Ronald Schleifer
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Literature and Science

Examines the legacy of the Enlightenment on contemporary thinking and modes of understanding

Embodying Technesis

Technology beyond Writing

By Mark B.N. Hansen
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literature and Science, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Philosophy
Series: Studies in Literature and Science

Presents a radical revision of our understanding of the technological

Virtual Gender

Fantasies of Subjectivity and Embodiment

By Mary Ann O'Farrell
Edited by Lynne Vallone
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Gender Studies, Literature and Science

Explores notions of gender fantasy across time and culture, expanding the concept of virtuality to include people and events in history

Simplicity and Complexity

Pondering Literature, Science, and Painting

By Floyd Fenly Merrell
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literature and Science, British and Irish Literatures, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Studies in Literature and Science

A fascinating exploration of the connections among science, art, and literature

The Troubadour of Knowledge

By Michel Serres
Translated by Sheila Faria Glaser & William Paulson
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literature and Science, Education, Philosophy, European Literature
Series: Studies in Literature and Science

A meditatation on the nature of education and the necessity of cross-disciplinarity

The Meaning of Consciousness

By Andrew Lohrey
Subjects: Philosophy, Psychology, Literary Studies, Literature and Science, Religion
Series: Studies in Literature and Science

Advances a bold new theory of consciousness and meaning by means of subjective, holistic analysis

Of Two Minds

Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics

By Michael Thomas Joyce
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Literary Studies, Literature and Science, Cultural Studies, Composition
Series: Studies in Literature and Science

An acclaimed hypertext novelist's reflections on art and technology, nonlinearity, and the creative process

Idealism and Liberal Education

By James O. Freedman
Subjects: Education, Literary Studies, Literature and Science, Law

An eloquent tribute to the value of the liberal education

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