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Science and Literature
Research Paper # 21084
Science and Literature
An examination of the relationship of the scientific paradigm of an era (e.g. evolution) and the nature of the novel (realistic, romantic, modern, postmodern). Includes theory, examples and major figures (Darwin, Aldous Huxley and H.G. Wells).
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1994
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the parallels and correspondences between the scientific paradigm of the time and the form the contemporary novel took, with particular emphasis on the realist, modernist, and postmodernist texts. The plan of the research will be to set forth a cultural context for the emergence of the scientific paradigm in literature, and then to demonstrate how literature and science overlapped and converged to shape literary form and content.Downs characterizes Darwin's Origin of Species as one of the dozen or so scientific books that decisively changed the world, not just of science but of the culture as well. He quotes Julian Huxley writing a generation after Darwin on the human implications of Darwin's science:
Darwin's work has enabled us to see the position of man and..."
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Science and Literature (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 12, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Research-Paper-Science-and-Literature/21084
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"Science and Literature" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Research-Paper-Science-and-Literature/21084>
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