Between Science and Literature: An Introduction to Autopoetics

ISBN-13: 9780252072543 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 208 str.

Ira Livingston; N. Katherine Hayles

Opis

Ira Livingston's "Between science and Literature sets out to introduce the fundamentals of cultural and literary theory to a non-specialist audience. Using ideas about self-reference, self-organizing processes occur at all scales, cutting across traditional divisions between words and things, and argues for an approach that sees language as a part of the world, rejecting the traditional split between words in our minds and things "out there" to which they are supposed to refer. Livingston makes his case by drawing on the work of thinkers across disciplines, ranging like Stuart Kaufman, as well as historians, gender theorists, and science fiction writers. The reader gets a feel for the concepts and how to use them through a series of model explications and analyses, operational definitions of concepts and terms, extended case studies, and thought experiments.