The Relationship between Literature and Science in John Banville’s Scientific Tetralogy

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidia Fiorato
Keyword(s):  
Literature And Science ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals MITOLOGÍA Y CIENCIA FICCIÓN: EL CASO DE MYTHS OF THE NEAR FUTURE DE JAMES G. BALLARD

2022 ◽  
pp. 793-815
Author(s):  
Juan VARO ZAFRA
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Literature And Science ◽  
Fantasy Fiction ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Narrative Production ◽  
Near Future ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Short Narrative ◽  
The Way

La relación entre mitología y ciencia ficción es paradójica: si, teóricamente, la ciencia ficción se presenta como opuesta del mito; en su producción narrativa recurre frecuentemente a personajes y esquemas míticos, materializando su dimensión prospectiva a través de la actualización evemerista o alegórica de mitos. Este trabajo revisa críticamente los presupuestos teóricos que escinden la literatura de ciencia ficción de los relatos míticos y la literatura fantástica. A continuación, analizaremos el modo en que James G. Ballard afronta esta cuestión en su narrativa breve, particularmente en Myths of the Near Future, que sobrepasa estas diferencias y plantea un nuevo marco teórico común entre literatura fantástica y mítica y la ciencia ficción. Abstract: The relationship between mythology and science fiction is paradoxical: if, theoretically, science fiction is presented as the opposite of myth; in its narrative production, science fiction frequently resorts to mythical characters and schemes, materializing their prospective dimension through the evemerist or allegorical updating of myths. This work critically reviews the theoretical assumptions that divide science fiction literature from mythical stories and fantasy fiction. Next, it analyzes the way in which James G. Ballard addresses this question in his short narrative, particularly in Myths of the Near Future, which goes beyond these differences and raises a new common theoretical framework between fantasy and mythical literature and science fiction.

Literature and Science: The State of the Field in Korean Studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-239
Author(s):  
Jongyon Hwang
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Western Science ◽  
Literature And Science ◽  
Disciplinary Knowledge ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Korean Literature ◽  
Korean Studies ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Literary Innovation ◽  
State Of The Field

Abstract The relationship between Western science and Korean literature is one of the topics that has drawn much attention from scholars in the field of Korean studies for the last decade. The focus on disciplinary knowledge of science as a source for literary innovation has yielded new insights into the formation and development of modern Korean literature. However, the task remains to locate multifaceted connections between literature and science by distinguishing connecting links such as concept, rhetoric, genre, and culture and to historicize the compromises and oppositions between them as different responses to the changing conditions of modern life.

scholarly journals Science, nomenclature et représentation. L’expérience et l’expérimentation dans La Joie de vivre d’Émile Zola

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 101-109
Author(s):  
Jolanta Rachwalska von Rejchwald
Keyword(s):  
Human Physiology ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
The Body ◽  
Experimental Designs ◽  
Literary Fiction ◽  
Literature And Science ◽  
Affirmation Of Life ◽  
The Relationship

The article presents a strict interpenetration of scientific discourse and literary fiction on the example of Zolaʼs La Joie de vivre. The coexistence of these discourses is part of the poetics of ambiguity, which is characteristic of the weave of literature and science, where Science opposes Doubt. The purpose of the article is to reflect on the relationship between Experience (everyday life) and Experience (scientific). This conceptual opposition is embodied in a pair of main characters: Pauline and Lazare, equipped with a different attitude to reality and science. She learns human physiology by experiencing changes in her maturing body, which appears to her as a complex, but full of secrets, beautiful machinery. He lives by fearing the body and seeing it as the source of death. He wants to defeat death by coming up with experimental designs that are supposed to make him great and bring immortality. His failures lead him to Doubt and negation of science. Zola decides nothing balancing between knowledge and doubt, affirmation of life and the inevitability of death.

scholarly journals Studying the relationship between anxiety and school achievement: evidence from PISA data

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonella D'agostino ◽  
Francesco Schirripa Spagnolo ◽  
Nicola Salvati
Keyword(s):  
Test Anxiety ◽  
School Performance ◽  
Conditional Distribution ◽  
School Achievement ◽  
Literature And Science ◽  
Multilevel Approach ◽  
Science Scores ◽  
Pisa Data ◽  
The Relationship

We analyze the PISA 2015 data for Italy using an M-quantile multilevel approach. This papers offers a complete overview of the relationship between test anxiety and school performance by studying how anxiety affects the performance of students along the overall conditional distribution of mathematics, literature and science scores.

scholarly journals LA GESTIONE DEL CICLO DELLE ACQUE TRA STORIA, SCIENZA E LETTERATURA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Polesello
Keyword(s):  
Global Change ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Aquatic Ecosystems ◽  
Water Cycle ◽  
Literature And Science ◽  
Modern Management ◽  
The Relationship

This lecture aims to present an excursus on the theme of the relationship between water and man and the management of water between history, literature and science, from the development of the first civilizations to the most recent consequences of human activities on aquatic ecosystems, showing the most recent solutions proposed for modern management of the water cycle also in light of the global change underway.

scholarly journals Fra bakteriernes perspektiv. Positioner i forholdet mellem litteratur og naturvidenskab belyst gennem Mark Twains “3,000 Years Among the Microbes” og Christian Böks “The Xenotext Experiment”

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (78) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Lohfert Jørgensen
Keyword(s):  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
Literature And Science ◽  
Local Character ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Relationship

Jens Lohfert Jørgensen: “From the Perspective of Bacteria. Position in the Relationship Between Literature and Science Illustrated by Mark Twain’s 3,000 Years Among the Microbes and Christian Bök’s The Xenotext Experiment”This article discusses how literature administers scientific notions about bacteria based on two curious examples: Mark Twain’s uncompleted novel 3,000 Years Among the Microbes (1905) and the Canadian experimental poet Christian Bök’s work The Xenotext Experiment (2007-). There are some noteworthy correspondences between the works’ engagement with bacteria: They both attempt to establish a microbial perspective (Twain by using a cholera bacterium as narrator, Bök by trying to make a bacterium produce a poem), they both use this engagement to experiment with literary form, and they are both closely related to the natural sciences. On the backdrop of these correspondences, the article sketches out a typology of five modal positions in the relationship between literature and science: Mediating, satirical, allegorical, ontological, ludic. The typology has a local character, but can form a starting point of the discussion of further modal positions.

scholarly journals Studying the relationship between anxiety and school achievement: evidence from PISA data

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonella D'agostino ◽  
Francesco Schirripa Spagnolo ◽  
Nicola Salvati
Keyword(s):  
Test Anxiety ◽  
School Performance ◽  
Conditional Distribution ◽  
School Achievement ◽  
Literature And Science ◽  
Multilevel Approach ◽  
Science Scores ◽  
Pisa Data ◽  
The Relationship

We analyze the PISA 2015 data for Italy using an M-quantile multilevel approach. This papers offers a complete overview of the relationship between test anxiety and school performance by studying how anxiety affects the performance of students along the overall conditional distribution of mathematics, literature and science scores.

The Order and the Other

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph W. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Literary History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Surveillance Culture ◽  
Literature And Science ◽  
Dystopian Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

The Order and the Other is a call to reexamine the relationship between dystopian literature and science fiction by thinking about the work that each genre does on and for the reader. The author believes that this is especially necessary in regards to dystopian literature intended for adolescents. Now that the cultural boom of YA Dystopian texts is over, this book attempts to understand that boom by placing dystopian works into the larger context of belonging to literary history of dystopian works. It attempts to help readers see how surveillance and power form the way that not only the characters within the films or books think about themselves, but also how it shapes the readers, as well. It also helps show that the surveillance culture and state that we see within such texts is not dependent on science fiction genre structures to exist. Finally, the book examines the most recent efforts to understand the genre and suggests ways inquiry into the genre might go forward.

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