Otis, Laura (Author)
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Volume: 31
Issue: 4
Pages: 343-350
What can someone learn, if anything, by reading or writing fiction? If people can gain new knowledge by imagining, of what does that knowledge consist, and how can we characterize it? This reflection on SLSA creative writing sessions approaches these questions by considering the kinds of discussions that can emerge when writers read their work to literary scholars, scientists, and artists. To show how writers differ in their appeals to diverse readers’ sensory imaginations, the essay refers to stories by Jorge Luis Borges, Junot Díaz, and Lauren Groff. The author argues that if artists and scholars can approach each other’s work as alternate but legitimate knowledge-building processes, we may be better equipped to meet the many twenty-first-century challenges we face.
...MoreSimilar Citations
Thesis
Horton, Dawn Marie;
(2011)
Genetic Epistemology of Science and Scientist in the Human Genome Field
(/isis/citation/CBB001567277/)
Thesis
Dumin, Laura Marie;
(2010)
Changes in the Use of the Passive Voice over Time: A Historical Look at the “American Journal of Botany” and the Changes in the Use of the Passive Voice from 1914--2008
(/isis/citation/CBB001567194/)
Article
Waizbort, Ricardo;
de la Rocque, Lucia;
(2008)
Um replicador em movimento: aproximações entre a poética narrativa de Borges e o programa de pesquisa dos memes
(/isis/citation/CBB000932871/)
Book
Arielle Saiber;
(2017)
Measured Words: Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy
(/isis/citation/CBB237401412/)
Article
Geissler, P. W.;
(2013)
Public Secrets in Public Health: Knowing Not to Know while Making Scientific Knowledge
(/isis/citation/CBB001320698/)
Article
Fernando Vidal;
(2020)
Jean Starobinski: the history of medicine and the reasons of the body
(/isis/citation/CBB026491975/)
Book
Lorenzo Magnani;
(2017)
The Abductive Structure of Scientific Creativity: An Essay on the Ecology of Cognition
(/isis/citation/CBB049134100/)
Article
John J. Kaag;
(2015)
The Lot of the Beautiful: Pragmatism and Aesthetic Ideals
(/isis/citation/CBB055986571/)
Book
Francesco Brusori;
(2022)
La mente come specchio flessibile. Storia e preistoria dell'immaginazione produttiva tra XV e XVIII secolo
(/isis/citation/CBB551012698/)
Article
Adrian Currie;
(2019)
Existential risk, creativity & well-adapted science
(/isis/citation/CBB259048419/)
Article
Julia Sánchez-Dorado;
(2023)
Creativity, pursuit and epistemic tradition
(/isis/citation/CBB782498092/)
Book
Melissa Bailes;
(2017)
Questioning Nature: British Women's Scientific Writing and Literary Originality, 1750-1830
(/isis/citation/CBB476661069/)
Book
Grimes, Hilary;
(2011)
The Late Victorian Gothic: Mental Science, the Uncanny, and Scenes of Writing
(/isis/citation/CBB001212834/)
Article
Valsiner, Jaan;
(2015)
The Place for Synthesis: Vygotsky's Analysis of Affective Generalization
(/isis/citation/CBB001551418/)
Article
Tzveta Sofronieva;
(2014)
Erwin Schrödinger’s Poetry
(/isis/citation/CBB089880567/)
Article
Grigorian, N. A.;
(2008)
I. P. Pavlov as Essayist
(/isis/citation/CBB000930368/)
Article
McMahon, Ciarán;
(2008)
The Origins of the Psychological Interior: Evidence from Imperial Roman Literary Practices and Related Issues
(/isis/citation/CBB000774200/)
Article
Carroll, Victoria;
(2007)
“Beyond the Pale of Ordinary Criticism”: Eccentricity and the Fossil Books of Thomas Hawkins
(/isis/citation/CBB000772246/)
Book
Liba Taub;
(2017)
Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity
(/isis/citation/CBB578065735/)
Book
Elizabeth Yale;
(2016)
Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain
(/isis/citation/CBB831137700/)
Be the first to comment!