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From: CLIOGiven his intention in Wonderful Life to explain “the nature of history itself,” we might expect Stephen Jay Gould to describe the rise and fall of nations and states, the triumphs and tragedies of great leaders, or even...
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From: Mosaic“Art is my interest, mysticism my message, Christian mysticism,” Annie Dillard wrote early in her career to a fellow English professor (Wymard 496)[Commonweal 24, October, 1975]. With such authorial support and...
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From: Novel: A Forum on FictionThe fiction of John Steinbeck has had a special appeal to the scientist, for of all the major American writers of fiction in this century, Steinbeck alone has had an abiding interest in natural science and brought that...
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From: Quarterly Journal of Speech[(essay date May 1985) In the following essay, Lessl examines elements of religious discourse and rhetoric in Sagan's television program Cosmos. According to Lessl, Sagan's Cosmos provides "a mythic understanding of...
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From: Science & SocietyI first made my acquaintance with the works of Stephen Jay Gould in the early 1970s when, mostly for the scientific edification of my children, I took out a subscription to Natural History (the admirable monthly journal...
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From: AB Bookman's WeeklyThere is a pond in Massachusetts, a fairly ordinary pond about half a mile long and a couple of hundred yards wide, and because I fish there, I would be a fool to tell just anyone where in Massachusetts. It is bordered...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 85, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed[Recent] work in literature and science.., overcomes the "two-cultures" dilemma not by forcing a one-culture solution from either direction, but by intellectual acclimation to a world of many intersecting cultures,...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWE BEGAN THIS COLLABORATION by recognizing two kindred interests: investment in the stories we tell about the status of science in women's studies and a desire to see women's studies as a critical locus of meaningful...
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From:French Politics, Culture and Society (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT: Amid the current crisis in the humanities and the human sciences, researchers should take up the challenge of writing more effectively. Rather than clinging to forms inherited from the nineteenth century, they...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 85, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedJourneying through the pantheon of forms that make up life on this planet, we encounter a host of different relationships between species; while there are those that hunt each other down for food, there are also those...
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From:Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature (Vol. 69, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedRICHARD Powers published his novel Galatea 2.2 at a time that many scholars agree was the beginning of the end of theory's reign in the discipline of English. While theorizing has been a part of literary studies at...
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From:Partisan Review (Vol. 69, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedEdward Rothstein: Edith has asked me to chair this session, "The Ascendance of Science and Technology." Traditionally, in gatherings of intellectuals and discussions about culture, science tends to be omitted--unless...
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From:The Worcester Review (Vol. 32, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedPoet Elizabeth Bishop felt an immense kinship with scientist Charles Darwin. He died twenty-nine years prior to her 1911 birth, but she thought of him as a mentor-friend. "He is," she noted in a letter to poet James...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 127, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTHE ROOTS OF SCIENCE IN THE CULTURAL SOIL T HE FRUITS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH are nourished by many roots, including the earlier work of other scientists. Significantly, Albert Einstein himself characterized his work...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 85, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDear Alan, I want to thank you, first of all, for allowing this conversation to take place electronically, a form of communication that I know you have some serious qualms about. You're as averse to it as I am to the...
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From:The Antioch Review (Vol. 74, Issue 3)"The creation of dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and arch." This is the modest opening sentence of L. Ron Hubbard's recent book, Dianetics:...
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From:Cultural Critique (Issue 67) Peer-ReviewedThe view that Edward Said is primarily a "Third World" critic of orientalism, imperialism, and Zionism has gained wide currency in the academic community and beyond. This appropriation of his writings, which has helped...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Prose (Vol. 44, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Chiara Ferrari, "Subversive Aims: Science and Contamination in Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray" (67-86) The framing of scientific understanding and its relation to aesthetics has been the subject of renewed...
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From:North Carolina Literary Review (Issue 30)SO, TELL ME ABOUT NARRATIVE HEALTHCARE." The heart surgeon's voice on the phone was commanding, the kind of voice that prompts a nurse to pick up a scalpel. I felt I had two seconds to deliver a one-minute elevator...
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From:Studies in the Literary Imagination (Vol. 52, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedA number of figures in Byron's poems and plays, from the prisoner of Chillon to Manfred and Marino Faliero, find themselves in states of mental distress. But less remarked upon is the way that several figures in Byron's...