Science and American Literature in the 20th and 21st Centuries : From Henry Adams to John Adams.

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Maniez, Claire

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.Description: 1 online resource (213 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781443835466
1443835463
128343654X
9781283436540

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Science and American Literature in the 20th and 21st Centuries : From Henry Adams to John Adams.DDC classification:

810.936

LOC classification:

PS228.S35 S35 2012

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HU 1691

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Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; PART II; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; PART III; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; PART IV; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CONTRIBUTORS.

Summary: 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 ...

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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 ...