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Literature and science writing in contemporary culture: The challenge to history in post-Enlightenment discourses of literature, science and literary theory.

机译:当代文化中的文学和科学写作:启蒙运动后的文学,科学和文学理论话语对历史的挑战。

摘要

This thesis examines the relationship between literature and science in contemporary culture. Section one explores the histories of literature, science and literary theory, from the Enlightenment to the present day, charting the ways in which parallel developments take place in each field. This version of history is justified by an analysis of the canon of texts and ideas to which 'postmodern' discourses make reference in explaining their current status. This history also involves the replacement of a traditional model of the culture, in which literature and science stand in direct opposition to one another as 'two cultures,' by a new understanding. This new model sees the culture as an amalgam of various discourses, and makes possible an analysis of the complex interactions between literature and science. Section two is comprised of three case studies, focusing on issues of knowledge, identity and time, which are used to explore this interaction of literature and science in contemporary culture, drawing out the ways in which it upsets binary distinctions that were key to Enlightenment thinking. The first of these is a comparison between notions of order and disorder in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and popular presentations of chaos theory; the second explores the transgression of the human/machine and natural/artificial boundaries in William Gibson's Neuromancer trilogy and Richard Dawkins' books about evolution; and the third explores a tum away from the concept of progress in Kurt Vonnegut's novels and Stephen Jay Gould's Wonderful Life.
机译:本文考察了当代文化中文学与科学之间的关系。第一节探讨了从启蒙时代到今天的文学,科学和文学理论的历史,并描绘了各个领域平行发展的方式。这一历史版本通过对文本和思想经典的分析来证明是正确的,“后现代”话语在解释其当前状态时会参考这些文本和思想。这段历史还涉及一种传统的文化模式的替代,在传统的文化模式中,文学和科学通过一种新的理解而彼此直接对立为“两种文化”。这种新的模式将文化视为各种话语的混合物,并使对文学与科学之间复杂相互作用的分析成为可能。第二部分由三个案例研究组成,重点研究知识,身份和时间问题,这些问题用于探索文学与科学在当代文化中的这种相互作用,并提出了颠覆对启蒙思想至关重要的二元区别的方式。首先是对托马斯·品钦(Thomas Pynchon)的《引力彩虹》中的有序和无序的概念以及对混沌理论的流行介绍之间的比较。第二部分探讨了威廉·吉布森(William Gibson)的《神经巫师》三部曲和理查德·道金斯(Richard Dawkins)关于进化的书中人/机和自然/人为界限的超越;第三部分探讨了库特·冯内古特小说和斯蒂芬·杰伊·古尔德的《奇妙人生》中的进步概念。

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    Cordle, Daniel.;

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  • 年度 1996
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