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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Berlin ; Boston :
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[2015]
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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.