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"The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind charts changing cultural understandings of dementia and alzheimer's disease in scientific and cultural texts across the 20th Century. Reading a range of texts from the US, UK, Europe and Japan, the book examines how the language of dementia - regarding the loss of identity, loss of agency, loss of self and life - is rooted in scientific discourse and expressed in popular and literary texts. Following changing scientific understandings of dementia, the book also demonstrates how cultural expressions of the experience and dementia have fed back into the way medical institutions have treated dementia patients"--
Dementia in literature. --- Literature and science --- Literature, Modern --- History --- History and criticism. --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities
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"... alors qu'au XIXe siècle, le roman réaliste et la sociologie naissante se sont naturellement inspirés, la conversation entre sciences sociales et littérature s'est progressivement brouillée et affaiblie. Ce processus est même devenu extrême en France, où une critique, inlassablement reprise depuis des années, a décrété la production romanesque actuelle comme désocialisée, insignifiante et enfermée dans les arcanes du moi. Ce livre est animé par une toute autre conviction, celle que certaines oeuvres recèlent, à condition de bien savoir les lire, des sources majeures pour la compréhension de notre époque. En s'appuyant sur l'analyse de 200 romans, signés par 20 écrivains français contemporains, tous vivants et en pleine activité, il permet de comprendre comment le roman reste une source privilégiée de connaissance et d'imagination pour les sciences sociales. Une démonstration est faite: le roman est toujours un laboratoire pour étudier la modernité, les individus, les situations et le monde. Non seulement en montrant les limites de certaines formes de saisissement sociologique (personnage social, rôles, intrigues...), mais surtout en permettant de fabriquer de nouveaux outils d'analyse et d'interprétation. Cet ouvrage, sans équivalent, est la première étude sociologique d'envergure de la production romanesque française actuelle"--P. [4] of cover.
French fiction --- Literature and science --- Sociology in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- French literature --- expérience --- écriture --- roman --- littérature --- personnage --- inventivité --- invention
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Figures of scientists in contemporary literatures and cultures. In a fragment published on 10 December 1810 in his "Berliner Abendblätter", Heinrich von Kleist argued that "men could be divided into two categories: those who understand metaphors and those who understand each other. of formulas ". Two centuries later, this volume borrows the Kleist couple "formula and metaphor" to investigate the fate of the scientist as a character in the literatures and cultures of a contemporary age understood in the widest possible sense.
Scientists in literature --- Science in literature --- Literature and science --- Literature, Modern --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- Modern literature --- Arts, Modern --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- History --- History and criticism --- contemporaneità --- Letteratura --- critica letteraria
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From the central concept of the field-which depicts the world as a mutually interactive whole, with each part connected to every other part by an underlying field- have come models as diverse as quantum mathematics and Saussure's theory of language. In The Cosmic Web, N. Katherine Hayles seeks to establish the scope of the field concept and to assess its importance for contemporary thought. She then explores the literary strategies that are attributable directly or indirectly to the new paradigm; among the texts at which she looks closely are Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Nabokov's Ada, D. H. Lawrence's early novels and essays, Borges's fiction, and Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.
Literature and science --- Literature, Modern --- Littérature et sciences --- Littérature --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Literature and science. --- History and criticism. --- Littérature et sciences --- Littérature --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism
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What can we today read the ideologues, those thinkers who reconfigured the field of knowledge at the beginning of the XIX th century? The discovery of an ideological moment. This moment is the one that sees a radicality of the Enlightenment split between various disciplinary branches, between various conceptions of subjectivity and emancipation. The ideological moment is a moment of passage, but above all of decantation. We see emerging there, although still intertwined and united, what we are used to distinguishing: Enlightenment and romanticism, rationalism and feeling, radicalism and conservatism, necessity and voluntarism, colonialism and thirst for otherness, science and literature.
Idâeologues (French philosophers) --- Literature and science --- French literature --- Ideology and literature --- Philosophy & Religion --- Philosophy --- History --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Literature and ideology --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Literature --- Science and the humanities --- Ideologues (French philosophers) --- Philosophers --- histoire de la philosophie --- idéologie --- sciences humaines
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This book presents the development and present status of adaptions of chaos theory for literary studies. Furthermore the integration of these methodological approaches into a discipline that is oriented towards cultural studies is demonstrated. The publication consists of four parts. The first part of the work deals with the issues created through questions posed by historical philosophy and historiography. It discusses how reflections on linear time, as well as on the description and explanation of sequences, circularity and synchronicities lead to an increased complexity in the semanticts of time in the notion of the objects analized. It also discusses the integration of discourses from other disciplines into literary history. It is demonstrated that both aspects - increased complexity and supplementary discourses - are highly influential in hermeneutical literary studies. The second part deals with changes in the notion of time in the modern and so-called post-modern era. It focuses especially on non-linearity, the increasing importance of historical time in the natural sciences and on the effect of this tendency on the analysis of highly complex structures outside of the natural sciences. In the third part of the publication concrete examples of the adaption of chaos theory for literary studies are examined - especially their epistemological interest, their position within the framework of the discipline and their interdisciplinary potential. This part elucidates the potential of focusing on the literary text and its particularities under the premises of chaos theory and how such an interdisciplinary approach helps to bridge the cap between the natural sciences and the humanities. In the final part of the publication the social and cultural relevance of historical knowledge as a frame of reference in times of increasing (temporal and social) complexity is examined. With reference to the explanatory power of hermeneutical procedures "chaostheoretical literary studies" are proposed as a working hypothesis. The approach is intended as a model which can be integrated into cultural analysis and not provides descriptions and explanations for highly complex literary texts, hypertexts and virtual realities, but also regards scientific and technical production and distribution of knowledge as an important part of culture and thus integrates it into its analysis. Die Publikation besteht aus vier Teilen, die zum einen die Entwicklung und den aktuellen Stand der Adaption naturwissenschaftlicher chaostheoretischer Konzepte durch die Literaturwissenschaft darstellen. Zum anderen wird die Integration der methodischen Ansätze in die Literaturwissenschaft anhand von Beispielen als theoretisch-methodische Bereicherung einer kulturwissenschaftlichen Ausrichtung der Disziplin erläutert. Der erste Teil der Untersuchung beschäftigt sich mit der Problematisierung von Gegenstandsbereichen durch Fragen der Geschichtsphilosophie und Historiographie. Es wird dargestellt, wie die Diskussion von (linearer) Geschichtszeit, von Beschreibung und Erklärung von Sequenzen, Zirkularität und Gleichzeitigkeiten zur Komplexitätserhöhung nicht nur der Zeitsemantik, sondern auch des Objektbereichs Literatur bzw. Literaturgeschichte und zur Integration von Begleitdiskursen aus anderen Disziplinen in die Literaturgeschichtsschreibung führen. Es wird gezeigt, welche Auswirkungen auf eine hermeneutisch arbeitende Literaturwissenschaft diese Problematisierung historischer Grundlagen hat. Teil 2 beschäftigt sich mit dem Wandel der Zeitkonzepte der Moderne und der sogenannten Postmoderne unter der besonderen Berücksichtigung von erstens Nichtlinearität und zweitens der zunehmenden Bedeutung von historischer Zeit in den Naturwissenschaften. Es werden die Auswirkung dieser Tendenz auf die Analyse von hochkomplexen Strukturen außerhalb des naturwissenschaftlichen Geltungsbereichs aufgezeigt. Im dritten Teil der Publikation werden konkrete Beispiele der Adaption von Chaostheorie durch die Literaturwissenschaft, ihre Erkenntnisinteressen und ihre Einordnung in die Disziplin bzw. ihr interdisziplinäres Potential analysiert. Verdeutlicht wird hier einerseits, wie durch Gegenstandszentriertheit mit den Prämissen der Chaostheorie die Privilegierung des literarischen Texts im kulturellen Kontext erzielt wird und wie andererseits durch Überschreitung der Disziplinengrenzen die Überbrückung der Kluft zwischen Natur- und Geisteswissenschaften gelingt. Im letzten Teil der Publikation wird die soziale und kulturelle Relevanz von historischem Orientierungswissen unter dem Vorzeichen der zunehmenden (temporalen) Komplexität von Lebenswelten untersucht. Mit Bezug auf Sinnstiftung durch hermeneutische Verfahren wird das Denkmodell "Chaostheoretische Literaturwissenschaft" vorgeschlagen, das sich in eine kulturwissenschaftliche Literaturwissenschaft einfügt und Beschreibungs- und Erklärungsmacht nicht nur für hochkomplexe literarische Texte und technikbestimmte Fiktionen (Hypertexte, virtuelle Welten) bereitstellt, sondern das auch die Wissensproduktion und -distribution der Natur- und Ingenieurswissenschaften als wichtigen Bestandteil der Kultur zu seinem Untersuchungsgegenstand macht.
Literature --- Chaotic behavior in systems. --- Chaotic behavior in systems in literature. --- Literature and science --- Chaotic behavior in systems in literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- Chaos in systems --- Chaos theory --- Chaotic motion in systems --- Differentiable dynamical systems --- Dynamics --- Nonlinear theories --- System theory --- Literature History and criticism
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Fragen und Antworten der Hirnforschung, Quantenmechanik oder Evolutionstheorie gehen in Romane ein, und Physiker oder Biologen verwenden rhetorische Sprachbilder, um ihre Erkenntnisse zu vermitteln oder sogar erst zu generieren. Dass literarische und wissenschaftliche Interessen sich nicht nur überschneiden, sondern im Kern eins sind, das war zu Keplers, Lichtenbergs oder Goethes Zeiten noch selbstverständlich. Sie wieder allgemein so sichtbar zu machen, wie sie es für zahlreiche Autoren der Gegenwartsliteratur - etwa Richard Powers, Thomas Lehr oder Raoul Schrott - stets geblieben ist, daran arbeiten in einer ungewöhnlichen Kooperation die Erlanger Departments für Physik und für Germanistik im Forschungszentrum ELINAS. Die Beiträge der Reihe widmen sich einerseits naturwissenschaftlichen Themen in literarischen Texten - etwa in Romanen des Amerikaners Richard Powers, der Chinesin Can Hue oder des Deutschen Raoul Schrott. Sie beleuchten andererseits aber auch, welche Rolle Ästhetik in Literatur und Naturwissenschaften spielt.
Literature and science. --- Science in literature. --- Fiction --- History and criticism. --- Powers, Richard, --- Schrott, Raoul --- Canxue, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- Canxue --- Tsʻan-hsüeh --- Xue, Can --- Deng, Xiao-hua --- Teng, Hsiao-hua --- 残雪 --- Deng, Xiaohua --- 邓小华 --- Paouers, Ritsarnt, --- Παουερς, Ριτσαρντ, --- Literature --- Science --- Physics
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Si science et littérature apparaissent aujourd’hui comme des pratiques étrangères l’une à l’autre, elles constituent deux formes de discours qui s’éclairent et s’interrogent mutuellement sur la scène culturelle et dans l’imaginaire de l’Amérique du xixe siècle. Loin de considérer la littérature comme un simple reflet du contexte ou de la pensée de l’époque, cet ouvrage collectif explore les modalités selon lesquelles discours et objets scientifiques se trouvent captés, transformés ou subvertis par l’écriture littéraire. À travers l’étude d’auteurs marquants de la période (Poe, Melville, Thoreau, Brownson, Whitman, Muir, Howells et Crane), les différents travaux ici rassemblés s’intéressent notamment à la poétisation de la science et de la technologie, mais également aux liens étroits et complexes entre foi, croyance, progrès et création ; ils soulignent enfin les enjeux esthétiques et intertextuels de l’usage de métaphores scientifiques dans des textes littéraires américains de l’époque.
Technology in literature. --- Science in literature. --- American literature --- Literature and science --- History and criticism. --- History --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- technologie --- croyance --- science --- littérature comparée --- littérature américaine --- civilisation --- progrès --- création --- 19e siècle --- littérature étrangère --- histoire culturelle --- histoire des idées --- science poétique
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Originally published in 1985. Beasts of the Modern Imagination explores a specific tradition in modern thought and art: the critique of anthropocentrism at the hands of "beasts"—writers whose works constitute animal gestures or acts of fatality. It is not a study of animal imagery, although the works that Margot Norris explores present us with apes, horses, bulls, and mice who appear in the foreground of fiction, not as the tropes of allegory or fable, but as narrators and protagonists appropriating their animality amid an anthropocentric universe. These beasts are finally the masks of the human animals who create them, and the textual strategies that bring them into being constitute another version of their struggle. The focus of this study is a small group of thinkers, writers, and artists who create as the animal—not like the animal, in imitation of the animal—but with their animality speaking. The author treats Charles Darwin as the founder of this tradition, as the naturalist whose shattering conclusions inevitably turned back on him and subordinated him, the rational man, to the very Nature he studied. Friedrich Nietzsche heeded the advice implicit in his criticism of David Strauss and used Darwinian ideas as critical tools to interrogate the status of man as a natural being. He also responded to the implications of his own animality for his writing by transforming his work into bestial acts and gestures. The third, and last, generation of these creative animals includes Franz Kafka, the Surrealist artist Max Ernst, and D. H. Lawrence. In exploring these modern philosophers of the animal and its instinctual life, the author inevitably rebiologizes them even against efforts to debiologize thinkers whose works can be studied profitably for their models of signification.
Psychoanalysis and literature. --- Literature and science. --- Art, Modern --- Mimesis in literature. --- Animals in literature. --- Anthropomorphism. --- Human beings --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Modern --- Animal nature. --- Themes, motives. --- History and criticism. --- Hemingway, Ernest, --- Lawrence, D. H. --- Ernst, Max, --- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, --- Kafka, Franz, --- Darwin, Charles, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Influence. --- Plots (Drama, novel, etc.) --- Animal nature of human beings --- Philosophical anthropology --- Symbolism --- God --- Representation (Literature) --- Imitation in literature --- Realism in literature --- Affichistes (Group of artists) --- Fluxus (Group of artists) --- Modernism (Art) --- Schule der Neuen Prächtigkeit (Group of artists) --- Zero (Group of artists) --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- Literature and psychoanalysis --- Psychoanalytic literary criticism --- Literature --- Corporeality --- Literature: history & criticism
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Literature and science --- Knowledge, Sociology of --- German literature --- Knowledge, Sociology of. --- Early modern --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Germany --- Knowledge, Theory of (Sociology) --- Sociology of knowledge --- Communication --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Public opinion --- Sociology --- Social epistemology --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- Alemania --- Ashkenaz --- BRD --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Bundesrepublik Deutschland --- Deutsches Reich --- Deutschland --- Doitsu --- Doitsu Renpō Kyōwakoku --- Federal Republic of Germany --- Federalʹna Respublika Nimechchyny --- FRN --- German Uls --- Germania --- Germanii︠a︡ --- Germanyah --- Gjermani --- Grossdeutsches Reich --- Jirmānīya --- KhBNGU --- Kholboony Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Nimechchyna --- Repoblika Federalin'i Alemana --- República de Alemania --- República Federal de Alemania --- Republika Federal Alemmana --- Vācijā --- Veĭmarskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Weimar Republic --- Weimarer Republik --- ХБНГУ --- Германия --- جرمانيا --- ドイツ --- ドイツ連邦共和国 --- ドイツ レンポウ キョウワコク --- Germany (East) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : British Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : French Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : Russian Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) --- Germany (West) --- Holy Roman Empire --- Deguo --- 德国 --- Gėrman --- Герман Улс
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