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Making a science of literary criticism

Endeavour, 2007
Since the emergence of "literary criticism" as a university subject in the 1880s, there have been those prepared to challenge its disciplinary status. How can something as subjective as literature be taught, let alone examined? Throughout the 20th century, the success of the sciences fostered methodological anxieties, resulting in several efforts from ...
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Science and Literary Criticism

Nature, 1950
Science and Literary Criticism By Prof. Herbert Dingle. Pp. viii + 184. (London and Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., 1949.) 7s. 6d. net.
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Literary Criticsm and Science

University of Toronto Quarterly, 1943
The struggle between science and literary criticism goes on, and with the years the issue becomes more muddled rather than clearer. The antagonism that many writers manifest towards the conclusions of science should neither surprise nor discourage us; psychic inertia is a datum, a force, that must constantly be reckoned with in all realms of thought ...
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Science in the perspective of literariness

Scientific Study of Literature, 2011
What is meant by a scientific approach to literature? I suggest that this question raises several issues: the need to elucidate the object of study, that is, to examine readings that reflect the literariness of the text; also the question how literariness is to be identified, what may be distinctive about it.
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Science and Literary Criticism

Archives of Internal Medicine, 1962
Among the scientists of our time Herbert Dingle is a notable exception. He has made a searching analysis of criticism and its function in science. In a series of scholarly articles, addresses, and books he has built up a substantial body of critical material on criticism.
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Rain in Literary Science

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Applied Science
Rain has always been likened to benevolence by poets across all ages. Everyone recognises that rain is the fundamental source that sustains all living beings in this world. This is precisely why poets have metaphorically compared rain to charity.
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Literary Anthropology and the Case Against Science

Man, 1994
Deux questions sont examinees : Peut-on dire que les anthropologues litteraires ont ete a meme d'offrir une vraie critique de l'entreprise scientifique ? Et ont-ils pu proposer un mode de connaissance plus puissant ? Ni l'anthropologie litteraire, ni la philosophie hermeneutique, ni la philosophie des sciences, n'ont su assembler les arguments ...
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Network Science and Literary History

Leonardo, 2013
This paper introduces a method for applying network analysis to the sociological study of literary history. Focusing on “little magazines” and poetry journals in the U.S., Japan, and China, the authors utilize bibliographic records to construct weighted, bipartite graphs of poets and journals linked by publication.
Hoyt Long, Richard So
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The literary background to science fiction

2021
Before turning to the first attempts in the seventeenth century at anything like science fiction, a few earlier works need to be discussed as a contrast with the new kind of imagination that begins with the first scientific revolution. Two works of Lucian, the second-century Syrian who wrote satires in Greek, illustrate the contrast.
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Evolution, Literary History and Science Fiction

2008
THE FIRST LINE OF the Preface of George Levine's study of Darwinian discourse and its connection to the nineteenth-century novel, Darwin Among The Novelists (1988) quotes G. H. Lewes's remark ‘that “science is penetrating everywhere” ‘ (Levine 1988, vii).
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