The science of literature : essays on an incalculable difference /
Do literary texts provide distinctive access to the history of science? Is the study of literature based on scientific procedures? Is there a connection between scientific processes and literary forms? The essays in this collection show how literary and scientific texts from the late 18th to the lat...
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De Gruyter,
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Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
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[2015] ©2015 |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Paradigms;
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Do literary texts provide distinctive access to the history of science? Is the study of literature based on scientific procedures? Is there a connection between scientific processes and literary forms? The essays in this collection show how literary and scientific texts from the late 18th to the late 19th centuries revolve around these questions. What emerges is a picture of the mutual dependence and the incalculable difference between literature and science in the period of their modern formation. |
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1 online resource (vi, 270 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
ISBN: | 9783110324341 |
Index Number: | PN55 |
CLC: | I0-05 |
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: A Science of Literature? -- Formative Forces: Biological, Philosophical, and Linguistic Generativity -- Divining Relations: Forms of Generational Recognition around 1800 -- Tidings of the Earth: Towards a History of Romantic Erdkunde -- On Nerve Fibers: Rhetoric and Brain Anatomy in Georg B chner -- Reading Off: On the Emergence of the Scientific Gaze -- On the Margins of Derrida s Terminology : Deconstruction, Dissemination, mise en ab me -- What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking? -- A Tremendous Chasm: Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, and the Measure of Poetry -- Torque: Life and Motion in the 19th Century -- A Doctrine of Transmissions: On the Classification of Machines Around 1800 -- The Novel Machine: Narration in the 19th Century -- The Moment of Narration: Outlines for a Kinematic Study of Goethe s Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre -- Afterword / List of First Publications -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index. |