The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Science
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Science PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Meyer |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 354 |
Release | 2018-05-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108548075 |
In 1959, C. P. Snow lamented the presence of what he called the 'two cultures': the apparently unbridgeable chasm of understanding and knowledge between modern literature and modern science. In recent decades, scholars have worked diligently and often with great ingenuity to interrogate claims like Snow's that represent twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and science as radically alienated from each other. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Science offers a roadmap to developments that have contributed to the demonstration and emergence of reciprocal connections between the two domains of inquiry. Weaving together theory and empiricism, individual chapters explore major figures - Shakespeare, Bacon, Emerson, Darwin, Henry James, William James, Whitehead, Einstein, Empson, and McClintock; major genres and modes of writing - fiction, science fiction, non-fiction prose, poetry, and dramatic works; and major theories and movements - pragmatism, critical theory, science studies, cognitive science, ecocriticism, cultural studies, affect theory, digital humanities, and expanded empiricisms. This book will be a key resource for scholars, graduate students, and undergraduate students alike.
The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Edward James |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 330 |
Release | 2003-11-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521016575 |
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The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction
Title | The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Carl Link |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 291 |
Release | 2015-01-26 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107052467 |
This Companion explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience.
The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science PDF eBook |
Author | Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 237 |
Release | 2020-12-03 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 110847652X |
The first ever companion to theatre and science brings together research on key topics, performances, and new areas of interest.
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Science
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Science PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Meyer |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 353 |
Release | 2018-05-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107079721 |
This Companion shows how literature and science inform one another and that they're more closely aligned than they typically appear.
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Clarke |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 273 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107086205 |
This book gathers diverse critical treatments from fifteen scholars of the posthuman and posthumanism together in a single volume.
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate PDF eBook |
Author | Adeline Johns-Putra |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 363 |
Release | 2022-04-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1009076914 |
Investigating the relationship between literature and climate, this Companion offers a genealogy of climate representations in literature while showing how literature can help us make sense of climate change. It argues that any discussion of literature and climate cannot help but be shaped by our current - and inescapable - vantage point from an era of climate change, and uncovers a longer literary history of climate that might inform our contemporary climate crisis. Essays explore the conceptualisation of climate in a range of literary and creative modes; they represent a diversity of cultural and historical perspectives, and a wide spectrum of voices and views across the categories of race, gender, and class. Key issues in climate criticism and literary studies are introduced and explained, while new and emerging concepts are discussed and debated in a final section that puts expert analyses in conversation with each other.