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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1. Verfasser: Labinger, Jay A. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York, London Routledge 2022
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"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-231) and index
Beschreibung:xvi, 238 Seiten
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ISBN:9781032053509
978-1-032-05350-9
9781032129129
978-1-032-12912-9