The science of literature : essays on an incalculable difference /

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 lat...

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Main Author: Müller-Sievers, Helmut (Author, Translator)
Other Authors: Smith, Chadwick Truscott (Translator), Babinski, Paul (Translator), Wellbery, David E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2015
Series:Paradigms ; 1.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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 Büchner 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 abîme 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.