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The science of literature : essays on an incalculable difference / Helmut M�uller-Sievers ; Translated by Chadwick Truscott Smith, Paul Babinski, and Helmut M�uller-Sievers ; with an afterword by David E. Wellbery.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Series: Paradigms ; 1.Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]Description: 1 online resource (vi, 270 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110324358
  • 3110324350
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Science of literature.DDC classification:
  • 830.9/007 23
LOC classification:
  • PT363.S3 M85 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: -- A science of literature? 1 -- 1) poetics of the life sciences 13 -- Formative forces: Biological, philosophical, and linguistic generativity 15 -- Divining relations: Forms of generational recognition around 1800 34 -- Tidings of the earth: towards a history of romantic Erdkunde 47 -- On nerve fibers: rhetoric and brain anatomy in Georg B�uchner 69 -- 2) the science of reading 91 -- Reading off: On the emergence of the scientific gaze 93 -- On the margins of Derrida's terminology: Deconstruction, dissemination, mise en ab�ime 107 -- What does it mean to orient oneself in thinking? 123 -- A tremendous chasm: Nietzsche, the birth of tragedy, and the measure of poetry 141 -- 3) the Applied science of literature 163 -- Torque: life and motion in the 19th century 165 -- A doctrine of transmissions: on the classification of machines around 1800 176 -- The novel machine: narration in the 19th century 195 -- The moment of narration: outlines for a kinematic study -- Of Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre 209 -- Afterword by David E. Wellbery 227 -- List of first publications 239 -- Bibliography 241.
Scope and content: Do literary texts provide distinctive access to the history of science? Is the study of literature based on scientific procedures? Is there a connection between scientific processes and literary forms? The essays in this collection show how literary and scientific texts from the late 18th to the late 19th centuries revolve around these questions. What emerges is a picture of the mutual dependence and the incalculable difference between literature and science in the period of their modern formation. -- Provided by publisher.
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Do literary texts provide distinctive access to the history of science? Is the study of literature based on scientific procedures? Is there a connection between scientific processes and literary forms? The essays in this collection show how literary and scientific texts from the late 18th to the late 19th centuries revolve around these questions. What emerges is a picture of the mutual dependence and the incalculable difference between literature and science in the period of their modern formation. -- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-256) and index.

Introduction: -- A science of literature? 1 -- 1) poetics of the life sciences 13 -- Formative forces: Biological, philosophical, and linguistic generativity 15 -- Divining relations: Forms of generational recognition around 1800 34 -- Tidings of the earth: towards a history of romantic Erdkunde 47 -- On nerve fibers: rhetoric and brain anatomy in Georg B�uchner 69 -- 2) the science of reading 91 -- Reading off: On the emergence of the scientific gaze 93 -- On the margins of Derrida's terminology: Deconstruction, dissemination, mise en ab�ime 107 -- What does it mean to orient oneself in thinking? 123 -- A tremendous chasm: Nietzsche, the birth of tragedy, and the measure of poetry 141 -- 3) the Applied science of literature 163 -- Torque: life and motion in the 19th century 165 -- A doctrine of transmissions: on the classification of machines around 1800 176 -- The novel machine: narration in the 19th century 195 -- The moment of narration: outlines for a kinematic study -- Of Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre 209 -- Afterword by David E. Wellbery 227 -- List of first publications 239 -- Bibliography 241.

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In English.

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