Science Fiction And The Two Cultures
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Science Fiction And The Two Cultures
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Author : Gary Westfahl
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2009-06-01
Science Fiction And The Two Cultures written by Gary Westfahl and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Essays in this volume demonstrate how science fiction can serve as a bridge between the sciences and the humanities. The essays show how early writers like Dante and Mary Shelley revealed a gradual shift toward a genuine understanding of science; how H.G. Wells first showed the possibilities of combining scientific and humanistic perspectives; how writers influenced by Gernsback's ideas, like Isaac Asimov, illustrated the ways that literature could interact with science and assist in its progress; and how more recent writers offer critiques of science and its practitioners.
The Two Cultures
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Author : C. P. Snow
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-03-26
The Two Cultures written by C. P. Snow and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-26 with Philosophy categories.
The importance of science and technology and future of education and research are just some of the subjects discussed here.
Beyond The Two Cultures
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Author : Joseph W. Slade
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 1990
Beyond The Two Cultures written by Joseph W. Slade and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Literary Criticism categories.
Contains--under these topical heads: The texts of nature; Quests for paradigms; Literary responses to science and technology (the latter with these sub-heads: Newtonian mechanics and the romantic rebellion; The mataphorical allure of modern physics; Imaginative responses to mechanization; Scientists and inventors as literary heroes)--a total of fourteen essays by diverse academic authors. Good stuff, carefully edited and well produced, likely to appeal most strongly to college and university faculty who have already on their syllabi the name of C.P. Snow. (NW) Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Postmodern Postures
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Author : Daniel Cordle
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
Postmodern Postures written by Daniel Cordle and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
In 1996 the physicist Alan Sokal planted a hoax article in the journal Social Text, mimicking the social constructionist view of science popular in the humanities, and sparked into life the ’science wars’ which had been rumbling throughout the 1990s. Postmodern Postures puts this contemporary controversy into the context of earlier debates about the ’two cultures’, between F.R. Leavis and C.P. Snow, and Mathew Arnold and T.H. Huxley. Through an interrogation of interdisciplinary approaches to literature and science, and a discussion of the arguments surrounding postmodern culture, the book formulates a literary critical methodology for literature/science criticism, highlighting both the benefits and the limitations of attempts to link the two cultures. Three case studies, focused through the issues of knowledge, identity and time, put this methodology into practice, showing how ideas resonate through the culture between literature and science.
The Two Cultures
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
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The Two Cultures And The Scientific Revolution
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Author : Charles Percy Snow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
The Two Cultures And The Scientific Revolution written by Charles Percy Snow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Science and civilization categories.
Science Fiction And The Mass Cultural Genre System
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Author : John Rieder
language : en
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Release Date : 2017-03-07
Science Fiction And The Mass Cultural Genre System written by John Rieder and has been published by Wesleyan University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
A fresh approach to the history and shape of science fiction In Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System, John Rieder asks literary scholars to consider what shape literary history takes when based on a historical, rather than formalist, genre theory. Rieder starts from the premise that science fiction and the other genres usually associated with so-called genre fiction comprise a system of genres entirely distinct from the pre-existing classical and academic genre system that includes the epic, tragedy, comedy, satire, romance, the lyric, and so on. He proposes that the field of literary production and the project of literary studies cannot be adequately conceptualized without taking into account the tensions between these two genre systems that arise from their different modes of production, distribution, and reception. Although the careful reading of individual texts forms an important part of this study, the systemic approach offered by Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System provides a fundamental challenge to literary methodologies that foreground individual innovation.
The Two Cultures And The Scientific Revolution
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Author : C. P. Snow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-12
The Two Cultures And The Scientific Revolution written by C. P. Snow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12 with Science categories.
2013 Reprint of 1959 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This is the publication of the influential 1959 Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow. Its thesis was that "the intellectual life of the whole of western society" was split into the titular two cultures - namely the sciences and the humanities - and that this was a major hindrance to solving the world's problems. Published in book form, Snow's lecture was widely read and discussed on both sides of the Atlantic, leading him to write a 1963 follow-up, "The Two Cultures: And a Second Look: An Expanded Version of The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution."
The Two Cultures
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Author : Charles Percy Snow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Two Cultures written by Charles Percy Snow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Religion and science categories.
Science Fiction Culture
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Author : Camille Bacon-Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Science Fiction Culture written by Camille Bacon-Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literature and society categories.
In a century that has taken us from the horse and buggy to the world wide web, science fiction has established itself as the literature to explore the ways in which technology transforms society while its counterpart, genre fantasy, insistently reminds us of the magical transformations of the individual in response to the demands of the social. So it should come as no surprise that the fans and producers of these genres come together to create the culture of the future around the ideal that tales of wonder about the future and the imaginary past can be shared as both symbolic communication and social capital. In Science Fiction Culture, Camille Bacon-Smith explores the science fiction community and its relationships with the industries that sustain it, including the publishing, computer, and hotel/convention industries, and explores the issue of power in those relationships: Who seems to have it? Who does have it? How do they use it? What are the results of that use? In the process, Bacon-Smith rejects the two major theoretical perspectives on mass culture reception. Consumers are not passive receivers of popular culture produced by the hegemonic ideology machine that is the mass media industry, nor are they rebels valiantly resisting that machine by reading against the grain of the interpretation designed into the products they consume. Bacon-Smith argues that the relationship between consumers of science fiction and producers is much more complex than either of these theories suggests. Using a wide range of theoretical perspectives, she shows that this relationship is based on a series of continuing negotiations across a broad spectrum of cultural interests.