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Science Surveys and Histories of Literature: Reflections on an Uneasy Kinship (2010)

Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 101
Pages: 570--577

Publication Date: 2010
Edition Details: Part of a focus section: “History of Science and Literature and Science: Convergences and Divergences”
Language: English

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With their common focus on narrative, literary scholars and historians of science share a close relationship with language and can offer each other valuable interpretive insights. Particularly revealing in each field are scientists' and literary writers' changing uses of metaphor, which is critical to each kind of scholarship since both disciplines place such a high value on cultural context. Any cross-disciplinary help, however, needs to take into account the essential differences between the fields: contrasting views of what constitutes evidence and varying relationships with the past. Since both kinds of scholarship involve creating as well as analyzing narratives, each field has developed its own sense of pacing and significance, and their differing approaches to truth deserve respect.

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Article Bono, James J. (2010) Making Knowledge: History, Literature, and the Poetics of Science. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 555). unapi

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