Connecting literature and science
A Brief History of L&S -- The Science Wars -- Models of Engagement -- Encoding an Infinite Message: Richard Powers's The Gold Bug Variations -- Is That a Coded Message? It May Not Be So Simple! -- Found in Translation -- Entropy as Time's (Double-Headed) Arrow in Tom Stoppard's Ar...
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Sprache: | eng |
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New York, London
Routledge
2022
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Schriftenreihe: | Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature
143 |
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Zusammenfassung: | A Brief History of L&S -- The Science Wars -- Models of Engagement -- Encoding an Infinite Message: Richard Powers's The Gold Bug Variations -- Is That a Coded Message? It May Not Be So Simple! -- Found in Translation -- Entropy as Time's (Double-Headed) Arrow in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia -- Chirality and Life -- Making New Life -- The End of Irony and/or the End of Science? "This work presents a case for engagement between the sciences and the humanities - focusing particularly on literature- and an empirical, non-theory-based approach thereto. Written from the perspective of a professional chemist, it seeks to demonstrate that the connections between those fields of intellectual activity are far more significant than anything that separates them"-- |
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-231) and index |
Beschreibung: | xvi, 238 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme |
ISBN: | 9781032053509 978-1-032-05350-9 9781032129129 978-1-032-12912-9 |