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Vor dem Hintergrund der im 18. Jahrhundert erstmals manifest werdenden funktionalen Ausdifferenzierung der modernen Gesellschaft wird das Verhältnis zwischen Literatur und Wissenschaft an Beispielen aus dem französischen (Diderot, Rousseau, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Proust, Houellebecq), deutschsprachigen (Goethe, Freud, Musil), italienischen (Vico, Manzoni, Pirandello, Svevo, Calvino, Del Giudice) und spanischsprachigen Bereich (Pío Baroja, Borges, Cortázar, Volpi) untersucht. Dabei zeigt sich, dass es trotz der zunehmenden Trennung der Bereiche (die C. P. Snow auf die Formel der ,zwei Kulturen' gebracht hat) immer wieder zu poetologisch und epistemologisch aufschlussreichen Interferenzen von Literatur und Wissenschaft kommt. Während im 18. Jahrhundert literarische Texte noch einen Platz in der offiziellen Wissensordnung hatten, wächst im 19. Jahrhundert das Bewusstsein für die grundlegende Differenz der Bereiche. Aufgrund der Dominanz der Naturwissenschaften und des Positivismus versuchen literarische Texte seit Balzac sich durch die poetologische Funktionalisierung (natur-)wissenschaftlicher Modelle zu legitimieren. Im 20. Jahrhundert werden in der teilweise skeptischen Auseinandersetzung mit wissenschaftlichen Modellen die Grenzen der Literatur ausgelotet.

Literature and science. --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities

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Since its origin, American literature has always had an uneasy relationship with science: born at a time when science was becoming a profession, it repeatedly referred to it, implicitly or explicitly, in order to assert its difference or, on the contrary, to gain a certain form of legitimacy. The purpose of this book is to show how scientific discourse informs literary writing, and to consider the relationship the two types of discourse have maintained: mutual metaphorization, questioning or ...

Literature and science --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- History

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This collection of essays responds to the intense interest that the relations between the discourses of literature (and other cultural practices) and those of science have obtained throughout various fields of study. Spanning a period between the mid-nineteenth century and the twenty-first century, the work collected here is firmly focused on the cultural significance of scientific discoveries and practices, and especially on the manifold representations of science and scientists in literature and the arts. Its four sections develop from an initial moment of dwindling indefiniteness of borders between literature and the sciences to the historical perception of an increasing divide between "the two cultures," to use C.P. Snow's influential expression, as well as calls for a form of convergence or "consilience" in Edward Wilson's words. The final section turns to the medical sciences, a porous scientific discipline in relation to the humanities, which suggests that consilience can already be found partially in specific areas. As such, this collection contributes towards critically extending that integration through the discussion of key literary representations of science, its promises, and its problems.

Literature and science --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- History

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Literature, Science, and Public Policy shows how literature can influence public policy concerning scientific controversies in genetics and other areas. Literature brings unique insights to issues involving cloning, GMOs, gene editing, and more by dramatizing their full human complexity. Literature's value for public policy is demonstrated by striking examples that range from the literary response to evolution in the Victorian era through the modern synthesis of evolution and genetics in the mid-twentieth century to present-day genomics. Outlining practical steps for humanists who want to help shape public policy, this book offers vivid readings of novels by H. G. Wells, H. Rider Haggard, Aldous Huxley, Robert Heinlein, Octavia Butler, Samuel R. Delany, David Mitchell, Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Gary Shteyngart, and others that illustrate the important insights that literary studies can bring to debates about science and society. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Science fiction, English --- Science fiction, American --- Science and literature. --- Science in literature. --- Genetic engineering in literature. --- History and criticism.

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One of the most contentious questions in contemporary literary studies is whether there can ever be a science of literature that can lay claim to objectivity and universality, for example by concentrating on philological criticism, by appealing to cognitive science, or by exposing the underlying media of literary communication. The present collection of essays seeks to open up this discussion by posing the question's historical and systematic double: has there been a science of literature, i.e. a mode of presentation and practice of reference in science that owes its coherence to the discourse of literature? Detailed analyses of scientific, literary and philosophical texts show that from the late 18th to the late 19th century science and literature were bound to one another through an intricate web of mutual dependence and distinct yet incalculable difference. The Science of Literature suggests that this legacy continues to shape the relation between literary and scientific discourses inside and outside of academia.

Literature and science --- German literature --- Young Germany --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- History and criticism. --- Literature. --- history. --- science. --- technology.