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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Classical Science and Literary Innovation

Diogenes, 1953
The letter of Professor John U. Nef in the first number of Diogenes cites, en passant, a formula concerning the seventeenth century that has become traditional among modern critics of the present position of science in our intellectual outlook. In the perspective of what has happened since, it is now easy to speak of the scientist's emphasis on ...
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The Dilemma of Literary Science

New Literary History, 1970
Istvan Soter, Rene Bonnerjea
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Cultural Science in Literary Light

2013
On the basis of the author’s earlier “construction” of Alfred Schutz’s Sociological Aspect of Literature, it is shown how the themes and approaches of psychology, social science, and the historical sciences are clarified by him with references to aspects of literature.
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