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Pender, Debra J. "Integrating science through literature." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/724.
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Bäckman, Emma, and Josefin Ellmarker. "A Literature Review of Innovation Science." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för ekonomi, teknik och naturvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-33293.
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This article is a literature review where the concept of innovation science is defined and explained with help from previous research. History shows that new products and services often occur from old ones, which contributes to development and industry growth. Innovation science develops over time and can be related to the Austrian school and evolutionary economics. The concept innovation science is broad and has been divided into three levels of analysis. The main parts of innovation have been highlighted and the aim of this review is to give a good insight in what research within the field has generated during the years. Keywords: Innovation science, innovation management, economy, product innovation
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Prows, Lisbeth S. "Science and literature: An integrated model." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/726.
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Aamot, Elias. "Literature-based knowledge discovery in climate science." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for datateknikk og informasjonsvitenskap, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-27047.
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Climate change caused by anthropogenic activity is one of the biggest challenges of our time. Researchers are striving to understand the effects of global warming on the ecological systems of the oceans, and how these ecological systems influence the global climate, a line of research that is crucial in order to counteract or adapt to the effects of global warming. A major challenge that researchers in this area are facing, is the huge amount of potentially relevant literature, as insights from widely different fields such as biology, chemistry, climatology and oceanography can prove crucial in understanding the effects of global warming on the oceans. To alleviate some of the work load from researchers, information extraction tools can be used to extract relevant information from the scientific literature automatically, and discovery support tools can be developed to assist researchers in their efforts. This master thesis conducts fundamental research into the development of discovery support tools for oceanographic climate science, focusing primarily on the information extraction component.
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Braford, Patricia Irene. "Connecting science and literature for first grade." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/692.
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Lynall, Gregory James. "Science and its cultural context in Scriblerian literature." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.409495.
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This thesis seeks to develop our understanding of the Scriblerians' attitude towards 'scientific' discoveries, theories and practices, and in particular seeks to emphasize the significance of the cultural context of science. Chapter One analyses the satirical 'miscegenation' of alchemy, the new science and index learning in Swift's A Tale of a Tub, before outlining the relevance of Richard Bentley's Boyle lectures to Swift's early works. In Chapter Two consideration of Swift's depiction of Isaac Newton's involvement in the Wood's Halfpence affair in The Drapier's Letters leads to an analysis of the 'Voyage to Laputa' in the context of the political hegemony of Newtonianism in the Hanoverian court. The third chapter considers how Pope discriminated between areas of scientific enquiry: supporting Newton but wary of 'Newtonianism'; interested in science but suggesting it can become an obsession. While discussing lesser-known texts by Arbuthnot and Gay, Chapter Four attempts to show that the Scriblerians were intensely aware that the legitimation of scientific narratives depended upon creating boundaries between rival theories and practices: sites of cultural exchange they exploited in their satires. The Conclusion suggests that understanding Scriblerian attacks on science must acknowledge the widest possible cultural context and accept that on occasions the 'science' itself may not be the main satiric target.
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Reynolds, Hannah C. "The Electric Era: Science Fiction Literature in China." Wittenberg University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1617805441166436.
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Cordle, Daniel. "Literature and science writing in contemporary culture : the challenge to history in post-Enlightenment discourses of literature, science and literary theory." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/34845.
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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.
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Murrell, Rachel Kerys. "Constructing science for the camera : science and technology programmes on British popular television." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.317258.
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Bodley, Antonie Marie. "Gothic horror, monstrous science, and steampunk." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Summer2009/a_bodley_052109.pdf.
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Yang, Qiong. "Mr. Science Goes Popular: Science as Imagined in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Culture." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1480543527922239.
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Swirski, Peter. "Poe, Lem, and the art and science of literature." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40004.
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Transcending the boundaries of literature, the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Stanislaw Lem contribute to a dialogue between literary, philosophical, and scientific cultures. A critical approach to these writers that ignores the epistemic dimension in their works opens itself to the charge of misunderstanding their artistic goals and aspirations. In my dissertation I thus define, justify, and conduct an interdisciplinary study of Poe and Lem's works.<br>My project is underwritten by the epistemological assumption that literary works, and notably works of fiction, can make a contribution to knowledge that can be assessed in terms of interdisciplinary criteria. In the first chapter, where I discuss literature and knowledge within the interdisciplinary context, I examine various epistemological arguments in light of my central assertion. Next I examine the concepts involved in the discussion of literary works. Following the pragmatic re-orientation in literary and philosophical aesthetics, many fundamental concepts we take for granted--artworks, fictions, and texts among them--require exact re-examination and definition. Consequently, in Chapters Two and Three I review and refine the recent theories concerning the nature of works of art, the specificity of literary fictions, and the problem of literary interpretations.<br>My subsequent discussion of Poe and Lem is built on the theoretical base of (literary) epistemology and analytical aesthetics. I study Poe and Lem's literary fictions and theoretical essays, and the contributions they make to various fields of inquiry. In the process I critique, and sometimes refine, the explicit and implicit hypotheses articulated in their works. Specifically In Chapters Four and Five I discuss strategic and game theoretic models in the interpretation of fiction, including the concepts of communication and rationality. In Chapter Six, completing the epistemological circle inaugurated in Chapter One, I discuss the epistemological and cosmological theories proposed in Poe's "Eureka".
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Leane, Elizabeth Mary. "Contemporary popular physics : an interchange between literature and science." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313327.
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Chan, Shu-Shun Herbert. "Hyperspace : parallel versions of multidimensionality in literature and science." Thesis, University of Essex, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298837.
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Jajszczok, Justyna. "The parasite and parasitism in victorian science and literature." Doctoral thesis, Katowice : Uniwersytet Śląski, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/676.
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Celem rozprawy Pasożyt i pasożytnictwo w wiktoriańskiej nauce i literaturze jest ukazanie,
w jaki sposób nauka (rozumiana tu jako nauka biologiczna) i literatura (w rozumieniu prozy)
okresu wiktoriańskiego wzajemnie na siebie wpływały. Te powiązania są analizowane na
przykładzie pasożyta i pasożytnictwa, które to zjawiska rozpatrywane są na czterech
płaszczyznach: biologicznej, ekologicznej, zwyczajowej i literackiej. Zawarte w rozprawie
teksty literackie i naukowe traktowane są równorzędnie: jako fikcyjne i niefikcyjne
opowieści (stories).
Rozdział I ukazuje, jak zależności pomiędzy nauką a literaturą można interpretować
za pomocą ekologicznych interakcji, od neutralizmu do mutualizmu, na przykładach dzieł
kilku wiktoriańskich pisarzy (Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Karol Dickens, H. G. Wells) oraz
naukowców (Karol Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, George Lyell, Robert Chambers, E. Ray
Lankester). Mutualizm jest tu wykorzystany do analizy analogii pomiędzy powieścią
Miasteczko Middlemarch George Eliot a pismami G. H. Lewesa, w których pewne pojęcia
używane przez jednego z autorów są pożyczane, adaptowane i zmieniane przez drugiego, by
później pojawić się na nowo w twórczości pierwszego twórcy.
Opierając się na idei mutualizmu naukowo-literackiego, Rozdział II ukazuje
paradoksy związane z pasożytami, zaczynając od skomplikowanej etymologii samego słowa
„pasożyt”. W pierwotnym greckim znaczeniu termin ten (parasitos) łączył w sobie
znaczenia, które dziś pojawiają się na płaszczyźnie biologicznej, ekologicznej i
zwyczajowej, co zaprezentowane jest w rozdziale na przykładach naukowych opisów
różnych gatunków pasożytów oraz literackich postaci Chrześcijańskich Zwierząt
Mięsożernych (Christian Carnivora) pojawiających się w Miasteczku Middlemarch, a także
członków rodziny Dedlock i Harolda Skimpole’a z Samotni Karola Dickensa.
Celem Rozdziałów III i IV jest zaprezentowanie dwóch historii pochodzenia
pasożytów; jako wywodzących się z wnętrza ciała żywiciela oraz jako pochodzących z
zewnątrz. W Rozdziale III ukazane są wczesne teorie europejskich naukowców (przede
wszystkim teoria samorództwa) oraz popularne wierzenia ludzi spoza kręgów zachodnich,
według których pasożyty generowane były wewnątrz swoich żywicieli i co za tym idzie,
uznawane były albo za objawy braku wewnętrznej równowagi żywiciela, albo jako
przyczyny tej nierównowagi. Koncepcji tej użyto w tym rozdziale do zinterpretowania
dwóch powieści: miejska biedota z Dickensowskiej Samotni odczytana zostaje tu jako
wytworzona z rozkładającej się materii londyńskich slumsów, natomiast panowie Bulstrode
i Raffles z Miasteczka Middlemarch – jako przychodzący z zewnątrz obcy burzący
równowagę lokalnej społeczności.
Alternatywna teoria pochodzenia pasożytów jest tematem Rozdziału IV, który
wprowadza pojęcie literatury infekcji – jako podgatunku literatury inwazji (invasion
literature). Czerpiąc zarówno z bakteriologii jak i medycyny tropikalnej, literatura ta
prezentuje wizje, w których wrażliwa tkanka imperium brytyjskiego zostaje zaatakowana
przez zjadliwe, egzotyczne czynniki patogenne. Jako przykład literatury infekcji, której
antagoniści interpretowani są jako nosiciel i patogen użyta jest tu powieść Znak czterech
Arthura Conan Doyle’a.
Innym przykładem literatury infekcji jest analizowana w Rozdziale V powieść
Richarda Marsha Skarabeusz Izydy (The Beetle), która ukazuje atak pojedynczego, ale
niezwykle wirulentnego, egipskiego najeźdźcy. Rozdział zawiera dwie opowieści o infekcji;
jedną zgodną z dziewiętnastowiecznymi normami i stereotypami, i drugą kwestionującą te
normy. W dalszej części rozdziału zawarte są przykłady na analogiczne zachowania, które
przejawiają zarówno antagonista z powieści, jak i pasożyty obserwowane w naturze. Aby
wyjaśnić te analogie, wprowadzono tu wywodzące się z nauk ewolucyjnych pojęcie
konwergencji, tj. procesu, w którym odrębne gatunki biologiczne wykształcają analogiczne
cechy funkcjonalne.
Ostatni rozdział rozwija ideę konwergencji w literaturze i nauce na podstawie dwóch
koncepcji wywodzących się z prozy wiktoriańskiej, które później odnajdują się w studiach
parazytologicznych. Naukowa hipoteza Czerwonej Królowej odczytana jest jako nowa
wersja idei, które pierwotnie znalazły się w Po drugiej stronie lustra Lewisa Carrolla,
natomiast przykłady zawarte w teorii unikania pasożytów (Parasite Avoidance Theory)
Valerie Curtis są odnajdywane w następujących wiktoriańskich powieściach: Samotni,
Miasteczku Middlemarch, Znaku czterech i Skarabeuszu Izydy.
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Forsa, Catherine Q. "Science as Aesthetic Device in Nineteenth-Century American Literature." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1460481373.
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Hatfield, Denise Truex. "Addressing second and third grade California science and social science content standards through environmental literature." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3056.
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In response to the federal legislation No Child Left Behind, schools across the country implemented required reading programs for classroom instruction. Open Court's Reading program meets this criterion for many schools. The text in Open Court Reading for grades two and three was evaluated for science and social science content standards that would be supportive of environmental education. Supplemental lessons from Project Learning Tree, Project WILD, and Project WET were identified.
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Schuller, Kyla C. "Sentimental science and the literary cultures of proto-eugenics." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3356443.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009.<br>Title from first page of PDF file (viewed June 16, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-329).
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Broome, F. H. "The science-fantasy of George MacDonald." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.356398.
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Dawson, Gowan. "Walter Pater, aestheticism and Victorian science." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298947.
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Gallagher, Ron. "Science fiction and language : language and the imagination in post-war science fiction." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1986. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/90798/.
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This study examines the claims for a privileged status for the language of science fiction. The analysis of a series of invented languages, including 'nadsat', 'newspeak' and 'Babel-17', establishes that beneath these constructions lie deep-seated misconceptions about how language works. It is shown that the various theories of language, implicitly or explicitly expressed by writers and critics concerned with invented languages and neologism in science fiction, embody a mistaken view about the relation between language and the imagination. Chapter two demonstrates, with particular reference to the treatment of time and mind, that the themes on which science fiction most likes to dwell, reflect very closely the concerns of philosophy, and as such, are particularly amenable to the analytical methods of linguistic philosophy. This approach shows that what science fiction 'imagines' often turns out to be a product of the deceptive qualities of the grammar of language itself. The paradoxes of a pseudo-philosophical nature, in which science fiction invariably finds itself entangled, are particularly well exemplified in the work of Philip K. Dick. Chapter Three suggests that by exploiting the logically impossible, by making a virtue of the tricks and conventions which have become science fiction's stigmata (time-travel, telepathy, etc.), Dick indicates a means of overcoming the genre's current problems concerning form and seriousness. In conclusion it is demonstrated through the work of J. G. Ballard, that any attempt to throw off science fiction's 'pulp' conventions is likely to lead the genre further into the literary wilderness.
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Taafe, Ouida Mary. "The interdependence of science, and literature in Goethe's Die Wahlverwandschaften." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.301150.
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Seki, Kazuhiro. "Literature-based discovery finding implicit associations between genes and diseases /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3232584.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, School of Library and Information Science, 2006.<br>"Title from dissertation home page (viewed July 10, 2007)." Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-08, Section: A, page: 2796. Adviser: Javed Mostafa.
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Nakamura, Miri. "Monstrous bodies : gender and reproductive science in modern Japanese literature /." May be available electronically:, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.
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Goforth, Andrew. "POST APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE AND THE STATE: SCIENCE FICTION AND STORYWORLDS." OpenSIUC, 2017. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2185.
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Mary Manjikian and other critics argue that post-911 apocalyptic Literature is anarchic, breaking away from the state through its destruction. This thesis challenges this claim, looking at the state through the abstract form presented by Deleuze and Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus to argue that while the state in its physical manifestation is indeed removed within the post-apocalyptic narrative, an internal desire for governance and a return to status-quo remains. Chapter 1 examines Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road in relation to this theory, particularly within the interactions between the father and son, showing that through the father, an argument can be made for the characters’ wish to return to a time where a physical state existed. Chapter 2 examines the relevance of the zombie narrative in relation to other “post-911 apocalyptic Literature” to examine both where these texts and media fit in relation to the state and contemporary culture – particularly in relation to politics. Through AMC’s “The Walking Dead”, the zombie narrative not only exhibits similar tendencies for a yearning of state power, but also expands the definition of a post-apocalyptic narrative, as when the state returns, not only is the narrative altered to one of dystopian fiction, the “other” becomes more ambiguous, as the zombies begin to pose little threat, leading to political tension amongst survivors. Chapter 3 and 4 examine the return to popularity of Lovecraft-esque fiction alongside the cultural infectiousness of the zombie. Beginning with Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu” and moving to China Miéville’s novel Perdido Street Station, the thesis will conclude with an examination of eldritch horror as an alternative to the post-apocalyptic in terms of rethinking the relationship of the state in contemporary culture, and arguing that the political “other” is now viewed as monstrous and difficult to define in a manner which zombies are unable to fully represent.
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Sigrist, Vanina Carrara 1982. "Literatura e ciência em Italo Calvino = o mito Qfwfq = Literature and science in Italo Calvino: the myth Qfwfq." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270082.
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Previous issue date: 2012<br>Resumo: Italo Calvino, questionando-se sobre novas necessidades impostas pelo enfraquecimento de diversos paradigmas conceituais e metodológicos das áreas exatas e humanas do conhecimento, dedicou-se intensamente como editor, crítico e ficcionista à leitura de incontáveis textos científicos e literários, com a mesma postura de curiosidade e de disciplina crítica, principalmente a partir dos anos 1960. Assim, ele desfez a visão cristalizada de que a literatura seria território exclusivo da expressão da subjetividade do autor em contato com o mundo, e de que a ciência se basearia unicamente em procedimentos de precisão e rigor, transmitidos por uma linguagem também exata. Aproximou por diversas vezes literatura e ciência, pensando-as como um híbrido de padrões e de exceções, de regras e de descumprimento das regras. Seu importante ensaio "Cibernética e fantasmas", de 1967, funcionou na pesquisa como núcleo argumentativo potencial para todo o percurso traçado pelas dezenas de textos seus, uma vez que nele são apresentados todos os elementos mínimos da discussão: o caráter combinatório-científico da literatura, o autor literário como máquina da escrita, a extrapolação da linguagem pela literatura como seu valor mítico e o leitor como fantasma responsável pela efetivação desse mito. Projetando esses elementos sobre uma seleção ensaística do período de 1965 a 1985, constata-se que as principais ciências que teriam contribuído para sua obra foram a cibernética, a antropologia, a etnologia, a matemática e a astronomia, concebidas em extrema mobilidade, sem rígidas fronteiras entre si. O escritor, recusando a estética naturalista-realista e a perspectiva antropocêntrica que a sustentaria, privilegiou teorias estruturalistas e semiológicas, a ideia do humano como uma dentre várias formas de vida, os modelos narrativos das culturas primitivas indígenas e ocidentais, a matematização dos procedimentos literários e a progressiva indistinção entre mundo escrito e mundo nãoescrito. Como crítico, entretanto, Calvino tendeu a explorar as afinidades entre literatura e ciência mais do que as especificidades de cada uma, incorrendo em uma postura interpretativa essencialmente estruturalista, abandonando, em certa medida, a noção de mito apresentada em "Cibernética e fantasmas" como momento determinante da linguagem literária. Foi com o objetivo de tentar reencontrar as especificidades literárias em seu discurso que lemos As Cosmicômicas (1965), um projeto de narrar o cosmo que alia ciência e literatura, máquina e humor, mostrando que tais elementos se misturam indefinidamente<br>Abstract: Italo Calvino, concerned about new demands due to the dissolution of some conceptual and methodological paradigms used in exact and humanistic areas of knowledge, mainly from the 1960's on, had been intensely dedicated as an editor, a critic and a fiction writer to reading several scientific and literary texts, with the same attitude of curiosity and critical discipline. He undid a traditional point of view which used to consider literature pure expression of an author's subjectivity in front of the world, and to consider science exclusively as a set of precise and rigorous procedures, demonstrated through a language also exact. He put literature and science side by side many times, taking them as a hybrid of standards and exceptions, rules and contraventions. His important essay "Cybernetics and ghosts", dating 1967, served in this research as a potential argumentative core for the entire path through dozens of his writings, because in this text all the basic elements of the discussion are presented: the combinatory-scientific nature of literature, the literary author as a writing machine, the explosion of language due to its mythic value and the reader as a ghost responsible for the effectiveness of this myth. Projecting these elements upon a selection of essays from 1965 to 1985, we can see that the main sciences that would have contributed for his writings were cybernetics, anthropology, ethnology, mathematics and astronomy, conceived in extreme mobility, with no clear boundaries among them. Refusing the naturalistic-realistic aesthetics and its anthropocentric perspective, the writer privileged structuralist and semiologic theories, the idea of human as one of several forms of life, narrative models from indigenous and western primitive cultures, the mathematization of literary procedures and the progressive indistinction between written and non-written world. But as a critic Calvino tended to explore the affinities between literature and science, more than the particularities of each one, reaching a way of reading essentially structuralist and leaving behind, in a certain way, the notion of the myth presented in "Cybernetics and ghosts" as an essential moment of literary language. It was with the purpose of trying to find again literary particularities in his speech that we read Cosmicomics (1965), a project of narrating cosmos which associates science and literature, machine and humor, showing that such elements get melted indefinitely<br>Doutorado<br>Teoria e Critica Literaria<br>Doutora em Teoria e História Literária
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Lancashire, J. A. "An historical study of the popularisation of science in general science periodicals in Britain, c. 1890 - c. 1939." Thesis, University of Kent, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.380610.
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Shaw, Debra Benita. "The feminist perspective : women writing science fiction." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386254.
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Henson, Louise. "Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell and Victorian science." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323196.
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Erhart, Erin Michelle. "England's Dreaming| The Rise and Fall of Science Fiction, 1871-1874." Thesis, Brandeis University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10103436.
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<p> This dissertation grows out of a conversation between two fields—those of Victorian Literature and Science Fiction (SF). I began this project with a realization that there was a productive overlap between SF and Victorian Studies. In my initial engagement with SF, I was frustrated by the limitations of the field, and by the way that scholars were misreading the 19<sup>th </sup> century, utilizing broad generalizations about the function of Empire, the subject, technology, and the social, where close readings would have been more productive. Victorian studies supplied a critical and theoretical basis for the interrogation of these topics, and SF gave my reading of the nineteenth century an appreciation for the dynamic nature of the mechanism, and a useful jumping-off point for conversations around futurity, utopia, and the Other. Together, these two fields created a symbiotic theoretical framework that informs the progression of the dissertation.</p><p> In this project, I am shifting the grounds of engagement with early SF between two main terms; my aim is to question the establishment of “cognitive estrangement” as the seat the power in SF studies and supplant it with an emphasis on the “novum”. While both terms are indebted to Darko Suvin, I argue that the fixation on cognitive estrangement has blurred the lines of the genre of SF in nonproductive ways, and has needlessly complicated an already complex field. This dissertation is a deep engagement with the SF novels of 1871-2 to establish how the genre was defining itself from the very beginning, and looks to examine how a close-reading of early SF can inform our engagement with the field. Chapter one treats the work of Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s <i> The Coming Race</i> (1871), chapter two examines Sir George Chesney’s <i> The Battle of Dorking</i> (1871), chapter three engages with Samuel Butler’s <i> Erewhon,</i> and chapter four is an examination of the relationship between the first three novels and Robert Ellis Dudgeon’s <i>Colymbia</i> (1873) and <i>A Voice from Another World</i> (1874) by Wladyslaw Somerville Lach-Szurma (W.S.L.S).</p><p> There are four fundamental concerns. The first is that the near simultaneous publication of Chesney, Lytton, and Butler signaled the emergence of SF as a genre, rather than as the isolated texts that had existed prior to this moment. The clustering of the novels of 1871-2 marks the transition of SF concerns from singular outlier events to a generic movement. The second claim is that the “novum”, one of the key aspects of a SF novel, is not just a material component in the text, but is a kind of logic that undergirds these novels. While the novum is often thought of as “the strange thing in a strange world”, I lock onto the early language of Suvin and critics such as Patricia Kerslake and John Rieder to suggest that it is, instead, a cognitive logic that is experimented on within the narrative of the novel. The third claim is fundamentally tied to the second: this foundation logic of the text is technological or mechanical. It is this connection of cognitive logic and technology and the mechanism that situates the novum as a technologic that is experimented on or evolved within the body of an SF novel, and is important because it helps us lock onto how SF is a product of the industrial age. In the break that occurs in 1871, this form of the novum plays a critical role in the development and identification of SF as a genre, and helps to distinguish texts with scientific themes (what I am calling <i>scientific fictions)</i> from those featuring a fundamental technologic that is intrinsic to the development and deployment of the narrative (what will come to be called <i>science fiction).</i></p><p> The fourth and final claim is a product of the function and nature of the novum: and is that SF as a genre not only helps to understand technology and culture, but actively works to define the relationship between the two. Technology is registered as an important influence on culture, and culture shapes the future of technology. This genre is ultimately growing out of the rise of the scientific method, and the logic of the texts reflects that experimental paradigm. The logic of SF is one that experiments with the future, testing the implications of the known world against the possibilities of time, and in doing so, defining the terms of engagement with what the future might bring. </p>
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Anand, Gaurish. "Automatic Identification of Interestingness in Biomedical Literature." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1410962490.
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Nissinen, T. (Tuomas). "User experience prototyping:a literature review." Bachelor's thesis, University of Oulu, 2015. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201504221415.
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According to the human-centered design process, prototyping is an essential element of user experience (UX) design. This literature review aims to provide an overview of user experience prototyping and answer the following questions based on previous literature: How does UX design benefit from prototyping? What kinds of prototypes and prototyping tools exist? In which phases of the UX design process is prototyping most valuable?
This literature review reveals that prototyping increases the understanding of user needs and context, allows designers to explore and evaluate design ideas and communicate design decisions. Low-fidelity prototypes provide insight early in the design process when possible designs are explored and initial usability evaluations are conducted. High-fidelity and e.g. multi-fidelity prototypes can include more sophisticated interactive features and act as living specification for developers and other stakeholders. Low-fidelity prototyping tools are widely available and easy to use, while higher fidelity tools are often viewed as time consuming and more difficult to use.
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Burr, Sandra. "Science and imagination in Anglo-American children's books, 1760--1855." W&M ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623463.
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Didactic, scientifically oriented children's literature crisscrossed the Atlantic in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, finding wide popularity in Great Britain and the United States; yet the genre has since suffered from a reputation for being dull and pedantic and has been neglected by scholars. Challenging this scholarly devaluation, "Science and Imagination in Anglo-American Children's Books, 1760--1855" argues that didactic, scientifically oriented children's books play upon and encourage the use of the imagination. Three significant Anglo-American children's authors---Thomas Day, Maria Edgeworth, and Nathaniel Hawthorne---infuse their writings with the wonders of science and the clear message that an active imagination is a necessary component of a moral upbringing. Indeed, these authors' books, most particularly Sandford and Merton (1783--1789), Harry and Lucy Concluded (1825), and A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1852), are more than mere lessons: they are didactic fantasies intended to spark creativity within their readers.;These didactic fantasies are best understood in the context of the emerging industrial revolution and the height of the Atlantic slave trade. These phenomena, combined with the entrenchment of classicism in Anglo-American culture and the lesser-known transatlantic botany craze, shaped the ways in which Day, Edgeworth, and Hawthorne crafted their children's stories. Certainly dramatic changes on both sides of the Atlantic during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries influenced the differences in the texts. More important to this study, however, are the vital connections among these stories. Each author draws heavily upon Rousseau's ubiquitous child-rearing treatise Emile and upon her or his literary predecessor to create children's books that encourage exploring nature through scientific experimentation and imaginative enterprise.;Yet these writers do not encourage the imagination run amok. Rather, they see the need for morally grounded scientific endeavor, for which they rely primarily on classicism and on gender ideology. Incorporating tales of the ancient world to inculcate the ideal of a virtuous, disinterested, and learned citizen responsible to the larger body politic, the three children's authors---but most notably and explicitly Hawthorne---tie a romanticized, classical past to the emerging industrial world.
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Bergman, Laurila Jonas. "Ontology Slice Generation and Alignment for Enhanced Life Science Literature Search." Thesis, Linköping University, Linköping University, Linköping University, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-16440.
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<p>Query composition is an often complicated and cumbersome task for persons performing a literature search. This thesis is part of a project which aims to present possible queries to the user in form of natural language expressions. The thesis presents methods of ontology slice generation. Slices are parts of ontologies connecting two concepts along all possible paths between them. Those slices hence represent all relevant queries connecting the concepts and the paths can in a later step be translated into natural language expressions. Methods of slice alignment, connecting slices that originate from different ontologies, are also presented. The thesis concludes with some example scenarios and comparisons to related work.</p>
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Golding, Samuel Michael. "Intensive materialism : matter, minds and bodies in Victorian science and literature." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2016. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/intensive-materialism(087b5cb2-1b15-4035-bd9c-d9522e59de93).html.
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In nineteenth-century Britain, Victorians began to make strange new discoveries about matter. As it was cracked open and broken into smaller pieces, scientists found a world previously hidden from view: a world populated by interconnected ‘fields’, atomic vortices, fluctuating energy and organic morphogenesis. The more these bizarre phenomena were scrutinised, the more they resisted quantification. Saddled with explanatory paradigms unable to describe this new ‘intensive’ realm, scientists and writers delved deep into the imagination, experimented with their bodies and pushed language to its conceptual limits. Peering beyond sense and logic, they realised that neat distinctions between mind and matter, order and chaos, the reasonable and the absurd, were no longer viable. This world of recalcitrant matter and energy could not simply be uncovered—it had to be made too. As matter, minds and bodies intermeshed in dynamic, sometimes frightening ways, the very foundations of thought began to shift. This thesis focuses on a number of literary and scientific texts that responded to and participated in the creation of this nineteenth-century turn to intensive materialism. Reading texts by authors and scientists such as John Tyndall, Robert Browning, Henry James, P. G. Tait, Frederic Harrison and James Clerk Maxwell, it argues that writing began to function autonomously and elusively. Sometimes it generated unexpected information in excess of its constituent terms; other times it exposed unresolvable ontological tensions. Offering a new way to think about materialism, this thesis considers bodily, mental and literary thought as partially morphogenetic and nonhuman. By analysing texts and their wider cultural reception, it suggests that we can trace the interrelated turns that created Victorian Britain’s intensive worldview.
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Afzal, Hammad. "A Literature-Based Framework for semantic descriptions of E-Science Resources." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.508545.
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Keeling, Charles Paul. "Cuvier in context : literature and science in the long nineteenth century." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/66734/.
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This study investigates the role and significance of Cuvier's science, its knowledge and practice, in British science and literature in the first half of the nineteenth century. It asks what the current account of science or grand science narrative is, and how voicing Cuvier changes that account. The field of literature and science studies has seen healthy debate between literary critics and historians of science representing a combination of differing critical approaches. This study asks whether we can continue work to synthesise historicist and formalist approaches, and suggests using a third narrative based approach to achieve a full complement of methodological tools. This in turn should provide more nuanced critical readings. In certain novels it has allowed me to shift the focus on literature and science enquiry to different decades. This study looks for “science stories” from scientific discourses in The Last Man, The Mill on the Floss and Bleak House. I have demonstrated the centrality of Cuvier to British science in the first half of the nineteenth century and that science's role as a model for the natural and human world, as well as informing the unstable systems of narrative characteristic of the novel genre and form. Cuvier's Essay initiated a lasting period of scientific centrality and legitimacy in British science and representation in British novels. His law of correlations applied to geology made his science both an important narrative and analogous to the empirical truth-seeking mode of the novel. The paleontological process becomes both a model for organic unity in Victorian fiction and a mode of narrative production. Cuvier's science and its discourse both produce and are reproduced in nineteenth century novels.
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NEWMAN, CHINA RAE. "GENDER PERFORMANCE IN DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/613347.
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This work analyzes the use and portrayal of gender in Jack London’s The Iron Heel (1908), George Orwell’s 1984 (1949), Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968), and Stephanie Collins’ The Hunger Games (2008), four dystopian works written over a period of 100 years. It questions the reasoning behind the use of gender within each of the texts and looks at the changes in the use and presentation of gendered characters in each of the novels, considering the purpose of each text and the possible reasoning behind gendered portrayals of the characters in each story. Though a chronological analysis of these texts reveals a change from the portrayal of femininity as a singular good to a mindless weakness to a necessary balancing force, feminine characters remain subordinate to and weaker than masculine characters, even as a female protagonist takes the stage in the final novel. Finally, the work questions whether the conventions of the dystopian genre preclude the existence of a feminine dystopian hero or if the reason she has not yet been written is based on a cultural bias towards strong masculinity in main characters of any gender rather than the norms of the dystopian genre.
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Thompson, Mary-Anne Carey. "Future tense : an analysis of science fiction as secular apocalyptic literature." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15880.
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Bibliography: leaves 208-219.<br>Religious apocalyptic literature appears to have been written in response to a situation of crisis in which the believers found themselves. It is the catalyst which provided the energy which the society needed in order to withstand that crisis, and it did this by radically inverting the dimensions which make up a worldview, that is the dimensions of time and space, and the classification of groups, so that it reflects the possibility of a new order, a new heaven and a new earth. Since the nineteenth century, the Western world has seen itself in a constant state of crisis in terms of the rapid secularisation, industrialisation and urbanisation, and it would seem that the notion of an apocalypse is still relevant. But religious visions of the apocalypse do not seem to have relevance to the largely secular society they would have been addressing. Something new, immediate and drastic was needed, which would supply the society with the energy to withstand the crisis of a secular world. Science fiction as a literary genre arose in the late nineteenth century, and it would seem as if the new social situation generated a new symbolic vocabulary for ancient apocalyptic themes, in other words, science fiction appeared as an imaginative literary genre of mythic, apocalyptic dimensions to address this situation. In the same way as religious visions of the apocalypse, science fiction inverts the components of a worldview so that a new social order, a new heaven and a new earth are seen as possible. In order to explore this theme, science fiction is examined in the light of radical inversion of accepted worldviews, and the genre is divided into three historical periods in order to understand the conditions under which it was written, as well as the content of the material involved. These periods are: 1. Apocalypses of Expectation and Hope. The late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century; the beginnings of the genre in the crisis of rapid industrialisation, secularisation and urbanisation, using the works of Jules Verne and H G Wells. 2. Apocalypses of Irony and Despair. The nineteen twenties to the end of the Second World War; the crises of the two World Wars on a complacent world, using the works of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. 3. Apocalypses of Destruction and Redemption. The nineteen fifties to the present; the crisis of nuclear power and thinking machines, using the works of Frank Herbert and Isaac Asimov. Also examined are the quasi-religious nature of science fiction, apocalypse as a cleansing agent of the universe, and the myths of noble survivors of post-apocalyptic literature and films. In the light of the above, it can be understood why science fiction can be seen as the functional equivalent to religious apocalyptic myth, but relevant to the largely secular Western world of the twentieth century.
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Slimak, Louis Jason. "A MIND WITH A VIEW: COGNITIVE SCIENCE, NEUROSCIENCE AND CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE." Akron, OH : University of Akron, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=akron1176747219.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Akron, Dept. of English, 2007.<br>"May, 2007." Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed 4/26/2009) Advisor, Sheryl Stevenson; Faculty Reader, Bob Pope; Department Chair, Diana Reep; Dean of the College, Ronald F. Levant; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.
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Fiorato, Sidia <1973>. "The relationship between literature and science in John Banville's scientific tetralogy." Doctoral thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/186.
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Partendo dal rapporto enigmatico fra letteratura e scienza nel dibattito fra le due culture, dalla
querelle ideologica fra Arnold e T.H. Huxley e, successivamente, fra Leavis e Snow - che
rappresentarono il climax della controversia negli anni 60 - la tesi analizza il rapporto fra scienza e
letteratura alla fine del ventesimo secolo, alla luce di teorie e scoperte scientifiche che sottolineano
la loro indeterminatezza e l'assenza di valori universali nel periodo contemporaneo (la teoria della
relatività, la teoria quantistica, il principio di indeterminatezza, la teoria del caos). Le teorie
scientifiche influenzano i testi letterari, i quali le reinterpretano e inglobano nei propri intrecci
narrativi, ma tale influenza è reciproca, in quanto la scienza, nella sua comprensione della realtà e
nelle relative teorizzazioni, appare rispondere allo stesso processo creativo epifanico della
letteratura.
Nell'ultimo trentennio, il rapporto fra letteratura e scienza è diventato in sé un tema d'analisi e
l'attenzione è diretta ad investigare quanto le due discipline abbiano in comune; partendo dalla
concezione dell'unicità della cultura, la letteratura e la scienza ne rappresentano due modalità
espressive. Entrambe derivano le loro teorizzazioni dalle problematiche contemporanee, dalle quali
sono allo stesso tempo determinate e che a loro volta, in una reciprocità di influenze, contribuiscono
a formare.
Fra gli autori contemporanei che meglio esemplificano la profonda connessione fra letteratura e
scienza, la tesi fecalizza la propria analisi su John Banville e la sua tetralogia scientifica, composta
dai romanzi Doctor Copernicus (1976), Kepler (1981), The Newton Letter (1987), Mefisto (1989).
Banville narrativizza tematiche scientifiche in un dialogo interdisciplinare fra questi
scienziati/filosofi del passato, scrittori essi stessi, che cercavano di dare un senso alla realtà esterna
anche attraverso il linguaggio.
Nella tetralogia vengono analizzate le figure di quegli scienziati che hanno contribuito al
cambiamento di paradigma nella visione del mondo, a partire dalla modernità fino al periodo
contemporaneo, in particolare in Doctor Copernicus e in Kepler Banville impronta la sua analisi su
scienziati rinascimentali per dimostrare come nel passato le due discipline fossero riunite in una
unità culturale e per tracciare il processo secondo il quale nel corso dei secoli questa unità si è scissa
in due diversi approcci teorici. Il suo interesse non è esclusivamente di carattere epistemologico, ma
anzi si concentra sulla mente creativa dello scienziato, astronomo o matematico, sulla sua vita e il
periodo in cui visse, sulla sua influenza nel mondo contemporaneo.
La tetralogia di Banville si propone di vanificare le distinzioni fra il pensiero scientifico e artistico.
Nella loro ricerca di comprendere il mistero della vita e di far progredire la nostra comprensione
dell'uomo e della realtà, sia gli scienziati che gli artisti si avvalgono di un metodo induttivo; gli
scienziati sperimentano empiricamente, mentre gli artisti si basano su un approccio soggettivo alla
realtà, ma la scintilla immaginativa che conduce ad una scoperta scientifica o ad una creazione
artistica è simile in entrambe le discipline.
In particolare, Banville sostiene che la letteratura e la scienza si propongono di dare una forma
coerente e ordinata ad una realtà percepita come caotica. La narrativa postmoderna e la fisica post-
Einsteiniana sono patimenti caratterizzate da una ricerca di nuove e originali rappresentazioni della
realtà che comprendano al proprio interno - e accettino - l'indeterminatezza e l'assenza di certezze.
Come afferma Banville: "As science moves away from the search for blank certainties, it takes on
more and more the character of poetic metaphor, and since fiction is moving, however sluggishly, in
the same direction, perhaps a certain seepage between the two streams is inevitable." (J. Banville,
"Physics and Fiction: Order from Chaos", in The New York Times Book Review, 21 April 1985, p.
42).
Starting from the enigmatic relationship between literature and science in the debate between "the
two cultures", from the ideological controversy between Arnold and T.H. Huxley and subsequently
between Leavis and Snow which represented a meaningful climax in the 1960s the thesis
analyses the relationship between literature and science in the last years of the twentieth century, in
the light of scientific theories which universally underline both their indeterminacy and their lack of
universal values (relativity theory, quantum mechanics, the indeterminacy principle, chaos theory).
Scientific theories are echoed in literary texts but also a reverse influence from literature to science
has taken place, as science appears to follow the same epiphanic creative process as literature in its
understanding of, and theorising upon, an enigmatic sort of reality.
In the last thirty years the relationship between literature and science has become a field of study in
itself, and the attention is thus directed to the common ground shared by science and literature, to
the uniqueness of culture and the different modes of expression represented by literature and
science. Both disciplines draw on, are to some degree controlled by, and in their turn help to form
the common anxieties of the time.
Among the contemporary authors who best epitomize the deep connection between literature and
science the thesis focuses on John Banville and his scientific tetralogy, composed by the novels
Doctor Copernicus (1976), Kepler (1981), The Newton Letter (1987), Mefisto (1989). Banville
fictionalises scientific themes in an interdisciplinary dialogue between these scientists/philosophers
of the past, who were writers themselves and came to terms with the reality surrounding them also
by means of linguistic tools.
In the tetralogy he analyses the figures of those scientists who contributed to a paradigm shift in the
world view from the early modernity to the present, in particular in Doctor Copernicus and Kepler
he focuses on Renaissance scientists. His aim is that of showing how in the past the two disciplines
originally enjoyed a cultural unity and of tracing the process whereby in the course of the centuries
two separate discourses arose out of one. His interest isn't exclusively focused on epistemology, but
rather on the creative mind of the scientist, astronomer or mathematician, on his life and times, and
on his modern day influence (in particular in The Newton Letter and Mefisto).
Banville's tetralogy represents an endeavour to abolish the hard distinctions between the scientific
and artistic modes of thinking. In their attempt to understand the mystery of life and to increase our
understanding of man and the world, both scientists and writers use inductive methods; the scientist
tests empirically, while the writer uses subjective approaches, but the imaginative spark which leads
to a discovery or to the creation of a work is similar in both literature and science.
In particular, Banville suggests that both disciplines are centrally involved in trying to give a
coherent shape to a chaotic reality; postmodernist fiction and post-Einsteinian physics are likewise
characterised by a disavowal of the traditional past in their search for new representations of reality
that involve an acceptance of uncertainty. In the words of Banville: "As science moves away from
the search for blank certainties, it takes on more and more the character of poetic metaphor, and
since fiction is moving, however sluggishly, in the same direction, perhaps a certain seepage
between the two streams is inevitable." (J. Banville, "Physics and Fiction: Order from Chaos", in
The New York Times Book Review, 21 April 1985, p. 42).
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Hallim, Robyn. "Marie Corelli: Science, Society and the Best Seller." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/521.
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Issues which faced Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries include the effects of new scientific theories on traditional religious belief, the impact of technological innovation, the implications of mass literacy and the changing role of women. This thesis records how such issues are reflected in contemporary literature, focusing on the emergence of popular culture and the best seller, a term which conflates author and novel. The first English best seller was Marie Corelli and, by way of introduction, Part I offers a summary of her life and her novels and a critical overview of her work. Part II of the thesis examines how the theory of evolution undermined traditional religious belief and prompted the search for a new creed able to defy materialism and reconcile science and religion. Contemporary literature mirrors the consequent interest in spiritualism during the 1890s and the period immediately following the Great War, and critical readings of Corelli�s A Romance of Two Worlds and The Life Everlasting demonstrate that these novels - which form the nucleus of her personal theology, the Electric Creed - are based on selections from the New Testament, occultism and, in particular, science and spiritualism. Part III of the thesis looks at the emergence of �the woman question�, the corresponding backlash by conservatives and the ways in which these conflicting views are explored in the popular literature of the time. A critical examination of the novella, My Wonderful Wife, reveals how Corelli uses social Darwinism in an ambivalent critique of the New Woman. Several of Corelli�s essays are discussed, showing that her views about the role of women were complex. A critical analysis of The Secret Power engages with Corelli�s peculiar kind of feminism, which would deny women the vote but envisages female scientists inventing and operating airships in order to secure the future of the human race. Interest in Marie Corelli has re-emerged recently, particularly in occult and feminist circles. Corelli�s immense popularity also makes her an important figure in cultural studies. This thesis adds to the body of knowledge about Corelli in that it consciously endeavours to avoid spiritualist or feminist ideological frameworks, instead using contemporary science as a context for examining her work.
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Hallim, Robyn. "Marie Corelli science, society and the best seller /." University of Sydney. English, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/521.
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Issues which faced Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries include the effects of new scientific theories on traditional religious belief, the impact of technological innovation, the implications of mass literacy and the changing role of women. This thesis records how such issues are reflected in contemporary literature, focusing on the emergence of popular culture and the best seller, a term which conflates author and novel. The first English best seller was Marie Corelli and, by way of introduction, Part I offers a summary of her life and her novels and a critical overview of her work. Part II of the thesis examines how the theory of evolution undermined traditional religious belief and prompted the search for a new creed able to defy materialism and reconcile science and religion. Contemporary literature mirrors the consequent interest in spiritualism during the 1890s and the period immediately following the Great War, and critical readings of Corelli�s A Romance of Two Worlds and The Life Everlasting demonstrate that these novels - which form the nucleus of her personal theology, the Electric Creed - are based on selections from the New Testament, occultism and, in particular, science and spiritualism. Part III of the thesis looks at the emergence of �the woman question�, the corresponding backlash by conservatives and the ways in which these conflicting views are explored in the popular literature of the time. A critical examination of the novella, My Wonderful Wife, reveals how Corelli uses social Darwinism in an ambivalent critique of the New Woman. Several of Corelli�s essays are discussed, showing that her views about the role of women were complex. A critical analysis of The Secret Power engages with Corelli�s peculiar kind of feminism, which would deny women the vote but envisages female scientists inventing and operating airships in order to secure the future of the human race. Interest in Marie Corelli has re-emerged recently, particularly in occult and feminist circles. Corelli�s immense popularity also makes her an important figure in cultural studies. This thesis adds to the body of knowledge about Corelli in that it consciously endeavours to avoid spiritualist or feminist ideological frameworks, instead using contemporary science as a context for examining her work.
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Jorgensen, Darren J. "Science fiction and the sublime." University of Western Australia. English, Communication and Cultural Studies Discipline Group, 2005. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2005.0116.
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[Truncated abstract] This thesis makes three assertions. The first is that the sublime is a principal pleasure of science fiction. The second is that the conditions for the emergence of both the sublime and science fiction lie in the modern developments of technology, mass economy and imperialism. Maritime and optical technologies; the imagination that accompanied imperialism; and the influence of capitalism furnished the cognition by which the pleasures of both science fiction and the sublime came into being. The third claim is that a historical conception of the sublime, one that changes according to the different circumstances in which it appears, offers privileged insights onto changes within the genre. To make such extensive claims it has been necessary to make a cognitive map of the development of both the sublime and science fiction. This map reaches from the Ancient Romans, Lucian and Longinus; to Thomas More, Jonathan Swift, Johannes Kepler, Voltaire and Immanuel Kant; to Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. This thesis then examines how the features of these fictions mutate in the twentieth-century fiction of A.E. van Vogt, Clifford Simak, Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke, Ivan Yefremov, the Strugatsky brothers, J.G. Ballard, Pamela Zoline, Ursula Le Guin, Vonda McIntyre, Octavia Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson, Stephen Baxter, William Gibson, Ken MacLeod and Stanislaw Lem. These writers are considered in their own specific periods, and in their national contexts, as they create pleasures that are contingent upon changes to their own worlds. In representing these changes, their fictions defamiliarise the anxieties of the reading subject. They transcend the contradictions of their times with a sublime that betrays its own conditions of transcendence. The deployment of the sublime in these texts offers a moment of critical possibility, as it betrays the fantasies born of a subject's relation to their world
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Kwan, Wing-ki Koren. "Experiments in subjectivity a study of postmodern science fiction /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B3681250X.
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Sassen, Catherine J. (Catherine Jean). "Citation Accuracy in the Journal Literature of Four Disciplines : Chemistry, Psychology, Library Science, and English and American Literature." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1992. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279353/.
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The primary purpose of this study was to determine if there is a relationship between the bibliographic citation practices of the members of a discipline and the emphasis placed on citation accuracy and purposes in the graduate instruction of the discipline.
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Green, Sarah E. "Earth Science." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1427967539.
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Mejia, Lillian Lynette. "Snow White in Space| Science Fiction Reimagines Traditional Fairy Tales." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1593257.
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<p> This thesis explores the intersection of fairy tales with late twentieth and early twenty-first century science fiction - specifically, the reimagining of classic fairy tales within science fictional settings. I will begin with an overview of the ways in which fairy tales and science fiction seem particularly well-suited for such an endeavor, in terms of similarity of common themes, structure, and narrative device. Next, I will examine two recent examples: Caitlín R. Kiernan's "The Road of Needles," and Tanith Lee's "Beauty," noting deviations from the traditional source material and highlighting the ways in which the original stories have been updated for modern audiences. Finally, I will offer several of my own stories that reimagine fairy tales in science fiction settings: "Curiosity," a retelling of "The Little Mermaid," "I Dream the Snowfall, the Red Earth of Mars," a retelling of "Snow White," and "Match Girl," a retelling of "The Little Match Girl."</p>
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Cutler, Carolyn E. "From science to the arts: Gertrude Stein's writing, 1894-1914 /." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148794610356554.
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Yule, Jeffrey V. "Science, the supernatural, and the postmodern impulse in contemporary fiction /." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487952208107624.
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