Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2023.2193800
J. Simon
ABSTRACT Our human tendency to remember more and pay more attention to negative events (rather than positive ones) may be at the core of our ‘enjoyment’ of the arts. Indeed, if we engage in sad and tragic stories, it may well be because we have a built-in propensity to be affected by situations eliciting negative emotions (i.e. a psychological phenomenon called the ‘Negativity Bias’). A good example of this seemingly paradoxical tendency is Fernando de Rojas’s Celestina (1499). Although the premise of the story is that of an amour courtois between two young lovers, Calisto and Melibea, the story ends with a suicide and, in between, there are also one murder, one accident leading to death and two executions. And yet, it was a bestseller at the time. This attraction to stories that elicit negative affects is also hypothesized to be the result of evolutionary pressures.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2023.2239108
G. Levine
ABSTRACT The long history of the relations between science and literature reveals a constant pattern of hostility. This paper argues that there has rarely been a genuine ‘conversation’ and that attempts to reconcile the fields have largely been unsuccessful. The effort to assimilate science to literature is understandable and in certain respects appropriate, but their radical differences, particularly via the distinction between fact and value, are permanent conditions. This paper argues that the healthiest and most fruitful relation between science and literature is one in which literary critics sustain their work of critique, not to enter the internal workings of science but to contextualize science and set against scientific activity aesthetic and ethical criteria.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2023.2193797
C. Canavas
ABSTRACT Transcending the human perspective has always been a challenge – for philosophical as well as for literary and scientific narratives. The present study focuses on such a transcendence from humans to plants through a joint reading of a philosophical and a literary narrative in a form of interdisciplinary conversation. Instead of interpreting literature by means of philosophical commentaries, the philosophical narrative itself will be focused and illuminated through the literary text. The essay La vie des plantes (The Life of Plants) (2016) by Emanuele Coccia is chosen as the philosophical component of this approach. The literary lens for focusing on Coccia’s phenomenological treatise enacts the imagery concerning the gradual transformation of a woman into a plant in the story ‘The Fruit of my Woman’ published in 1997 by the South Korean author Han Kang.
超越人类视角一直是哲学、文学和科学叙事的一大挑战。本研究的重点是通过跨学科对话形式的哲学和文学叙事的联合阅读，从人类到植物的这种超越。哲学叙事本身将通过文学文本得到聚焦和阐释，而不是通过哲学评论来解释文学。选择Emanuele Coccia的文章La vie des plantes(植物的生命)(2016)作为这种方法的哲学组成部分。聚焦于科西亚现象学专著的文学镜头，再现了韩国作家韩江1997年出版的小说《我女人的果实》中关于女人逐渐变成植物的意象。
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2023.2193799
Lidia Bocanegra Barbecho, Salvador Ros Muñoz, Elena González-Blanco García, M. Toscano
ABSTRACT The incorporation of the humanities into digital transformation processes resulted in the emergence of a new research field called digital humanities. This new field has its origin in the beginning of the second half of the twentieth century. From the research point of view, through the analysis of the scientific production of the main academic databases, we provide here an overview of the international panorama of digital humanities, looking at the main countries, institutions, areas of knowledge and leading topics in this discipline.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2023.2193798
Carlos Gámez-Pérez
Science-and-literature studies are a relatively new endeavour, having emerged as a main topic in the last decades, especially in the Anglo-American academy, but also in other academic traditions (Willis 2014). The proposal of some exponents of this emergent field is to erase the boundaries between science and culture and, by extension, between nature and society. The latter was initiated in the Early Modern episteme by Thomas Hobbes and Robert Boyle, as Bruno Latour suggests in We Have Never Been Modern (1993, 47), quoting Leviathan and the Air Pump by Simon Schaffer and Steven Shapin. Although during the whole twentieth century, in English-speaking academia, the relationship between science and literature was not negligible, especially with poetry, as Lance Schachterle very well describes in the introduction of the Encyclopedia of Literature and Science (Gossin 2002). This dialogue started to become particularly intense during the last decades of the twentieth century. The claim for a dialogue is at the centre of Order out of Chaos (1984), written by physicist Ilya Prigogine and historian of science Isabelle Stengers to overcome the separation between the two cultures denounced by C. P. Snow (1959). During the first decades of the twenty-first century, the field has strongly developed frommultiple and different perspectives. Important handbooks on science-and-literature studies have been published, such as Pamela Gossin’s Encyclopedia of Literature and Science (2002), crafted as an introduction for students, instructors and interdisciplinary scholars in an encyclopaedic manner, or The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science (2011), edited by Bruce Clarke and Manuela Rossini, focused on the humanistic perspective and dedicated primarily to literature in English. Other publications have compiled the academic interaction and dialogue between scientists, writers, artists and humanists, such as #Nodos (2017), edited by Gustavo Schwartz and Víctor Bermúdez. Furthermore, recently different academic institutions launched several projects on science-and-literature studies. From a European perspective, one should mention the ambitious project developed around Bremen and Oldenburg in north-western Germany, Fiction Meets Science (FMS). FMS constructs a dialogue between experts in science studies (sociologist, historians) and experts in literary studies, including
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2023.2193802
Wolfgang Funk
ABSTRACT This article argues for a specifically female appropriation and reshaping of the epic tradition in the wake of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. Based on an analysis of Mathilde Blind’s The Ascent of Man and Louisa Sarah Bevington’s ‘Unto this Present’, it will show how this ‘female evolutionary epic’ responds to and counteracts Social Darwinist narratives of competition and struggle by emphasizing forces of (maternal) gestation, co-operation and sympathy in the development of life on earth. In doing so, these poems anticipate Peter Kropotkin’s notion of ‘mutual aid’ as the primary factor in evolution.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2023.2193795
M. Vara
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the function of the magic lantern, a seventeenth-century scientific invention with the ability to project frightening images painted on transparent slides, as a literary device intrinsically connected to the Gothic genre. Darkness, foul weather, animated portraits, eerie apparitions, crumbling abbeys and half-demolished tombs team with physics and optics in an intricate swirl of exchanges between literature and visual technology, still relevant today. These exchanges are vividly illustrated in Girona’s spectacular Museu del Cinema – Col·lecció Tomàs Mallol.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2023.2193793
J. Holmes
ABSTRACT In his cosmological epic Man, Ronald Duncan attempted to bridge the perceived divide between science and poetry. To do so, he had to find an aesthetically effective way to incorporate scientific data into poetry while using the form of the modernist long poem to replicate the insatiable processes of enquiry that he saw as defining science itself. Duncan’s dialogic engagement with science and scientists instigated in turn the creation of a new kind of reference work, The Encyclopaedia of Ignorance, sharing and promoting the same conception of science as Man.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2023.2193804
Benito García-Valero
ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to contribute to the resignification of the queer as a valid category both in science and literary studies. It puts forward a criticism of the queer as a cultural construct and enhances its definition with evidence from the sciences of biology and quantum physics. Finally, it claims the validity of queer perspectives to understand the slippage between categories in any epistemology.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2023.2193803
Michael H. Whitworth
ABSTRACT Both Mina Loy’s autobiographical poem ‘Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose’ and C. Day Lewis’s From Feathers to Iron are cognizant of epic without reproducing the conventions of epic narrative. In part, the epic quality of both comes from their depiction or implication of epic scales as a backdrop for human action. Unfamiliar scales were found in many sciences, with astronomy and cosmology being the most prominent in the early twentieth century. The essay considers Loy’s scientific diction and Day Lewis’s sources in popular science and astronomy works by A. S. Eddington and James Jeans.
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