The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science (Routledge Literature Companions)

✍ Scribed by Bruce Clarke, Manuela Rossini

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 569
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

With forty-four newly commissioned articles from an international cast of leading scholars, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science traces the network of connections among literature, science, technology, mathematics, and medicine. Divided into three main sections, this volume: links diverse literatures to scientific disciplines from Artificial Intelligence to Thermodynamics surveys current theoretical and disciplinary approaches from Animal Studies to Semiotics traces the history and culture of literature and science from Greece and Rome to Postmodernism. Ranging from classical origins and modern revolutions to current developments in cultural science studies and the posthumanities, this indispensible volume offers a comprehensive resource for undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers. With authoritative, accessible, and succinct treatments of the sciences in their literary dimensions and cultural frameworks, here is the essential guide to this vibrant area of study.

✦ Table of Contents

TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
FIGURES......Page 10
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 11
PREFACE......Page 16
PART I: LITERATURES AND SCIENCES......Page 20
1 AI AND ALIFE......Page 23
2 ALCHEMY......Page 36
3 BIOLOGY......Page 48
4 CHAOS AND COMPLEXITY THEORY......Page 60
5 CHEMISTRY......Page 70
6 CLIMATE SCIENCE......Page 82
7 COGNITIVE SCIENCE......Page 96
8 CYBERNETICS......Page 108
9 ECOLOGY......Page 119
10 EVOLUTION......Page 131
11 GENETICS......Page 143
12 GEOLOGY......Page 154
13 INFORMATION THEORY......Page 164
14 MATHEMATICS......Page 176
15 MEDICINE......Page 188
16 NANOTECHNOLOGY......Page 200
17 PHYSICS......Page 211
18 PSYCHOANALYSIS......Page 222
19 SYSTEMS THEORY......Page 233
20 THERMODYNAMICS......Page 245
PART II: DISCIPLINARY AND THEORETICAL APPROACHES......Page 258
21 AGRICULTURAL STUDIES......Page 261
22 ANIMAL STUDIES......Page 272
23 ART CONNECTIONS......Page 283
24 CULTURAL SCIENCE STUDIES......Page 295
25 DECONSTRUCTION......Page 306
26 E-LITERATURE......Page 317
27 FEMINIST SCIENCE STUDIES......Page 331
28 GAME STUDIES......Page 342
29 HISTORY OF SCIENCE......Page 354
30 MEDIA STUDIES......Page 368
31 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE......Page 381
32 POSTHUMANISM......Page 393
33 SCIENCE FICTION......Page 404
34 SEMIOTICS......Page 415
PART III: PERIODS AND CULTURES......Page 426
35 GREECE AND ROME......Page 428
36 MIDDLE AGES AND EARLY RENAISSANCE......Page 442
37 SCIENTIFIC “REVOLUTION” I: Copernicus to Boyle......Page 457
38 SCIENTIFIC “REVOLUTION” II: Newton to Laplace......Page 468
39 ROMANTICISM......Page 481
40 INDUSTRIALISM......Page 493
41 RUSSIA......Page 505
42 JAPAN......Page 516
43 MODERNISM......Page 527
44 POSTMODERNISM......Page 537
INDEX......Page 548