[Routledge Companions 01] • The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science by Clarke, Bruce -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

CONTENTS FIGURES CONTRIBUTORS PREFACE Part I LITERATURES AND SCIENCES

1 AI AND ALIFE

I II III IV V Notes Bibliography

2 ALCHEMY

Bibliography

3 BIOLOGY

Biology in literature, or: literary history and the evolution of the biosciences Biology and the study of literature: interfacing concepts and methods Taxonomy, hybridity, mimicry, or: negotiating biologisms Re-naturalizing literature? How biology challenges constructionism Is there art in nature – or literature in biology? Acknowledgment Bibliography

4 CHAOS AND COMPLEXITY THEORY

Learning to see chaos Complexity Chaos Cooking up complexity What it all means Bibliography

5 CHEMISTRY

The nineteenth century The twentieth century Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography

6 CLIMATE SCIENCE

Beyond anthropogenic time Time and fiction in the age of global warming Coda Bibliography

7 COGNITIVE SCIENCE

Bibliography

8 CYBERNETICS

Bibliography

9 ECOLOGY

Ecological knowledge, history, and culture Ecological science and literature before the twentieth century Nature writing before the twentieth century The science and politics of ecology Contemporary ecological literatures Ecocriticism, science, and science studies Bibliography

10 EVOLUTION

Evolution before Darwin’s Origin: transformism, transmutation, Vestiges Darwin’s On the Origin of Species: linguistic knowledge, metaphor, and the grandeur of evolution by natural selection Conclusion: the evolution of anxiety, from the fin de siècle to the present Bibliography

11 GENETICS

Histories and popularizations Critiques Fiction Literary and cultural criticism Bibliography

12 GEOLOGY

Bibliography

13 INFORMATION THEORY

Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography

14 MATHEMATICS

Bibliography

15 MEDICINE

Bibliography

16 NANOTECHNOLOGY

Bibliography

17 PHYSICS

I II III Bibliography

18 PSYCHOANALYSIS

Bibliography

19 SYSTEMS THEORY

Thermodynamic systems: environmental closure First-order cybernetics: control systems General system theory Open systems: self-organization Second-order systems theory: self-referential systems Operational closure The generalization of autopoiesis Bibliography

20 THERMODYNAMICS

Entropy and closed systems Entropy and open systems Self-organizing systems Bibliography

Part II DISCIPLINARY AND THEORETICAL APPROACHES

21 AGRICULTURAL STUDIES

Bibliography

22 ANIMAL STUDIES

Bibliography

23 ART CONNECTIONS

Introduction Interdisciplinarity: homogeneity or plurality? A recent case of interdisciplinarity The methods of science, philosophy, and art A function of art Indeterminacy in literary theory The potential for interdisciplinary knowledge Bibliography

24 CULTURAL SCIENCE STUDIES

What are cultural studies of science? Gillian Beer: Darwin’s plots, narrative, and argument Donna Haraway: science fiction and/as cultural studies of technoscience Katherine Hayles: the encounter between cybernetics and cyberliterature Conclusion Bibliography

25 DECONSTRUCTION

Notes Bibliography

26 E-LITERATURE

The literary prefiguration of the internet The dream life of literal letters Constrained writing Toward a semantic literary web A coalescence of theory and fiction Bibliography

27 FEMINIST SCIENCE STUDIES

Bibliography

28 GAME STUDIES

Approaches to studying games Ludology and its discontents The specific characteristics of digital games Finding a middle ground in game studies The future of game studies Bibliography

29 HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Post-positivism in the historical study of science Towards a genealogy of “history and science” Progressions and projections The list as a historical account Polemical use of the history of science History as interpretation and diagnostics Discipline or interdiscipline? Conclusion Acknowledgments Bibliography

30 MEDIA STUDIES

Media innovation The medial turn The discipline of media studies Media apparatuses Beyond the print revolution Media and technics Bibliography

31 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Philosophy of science Resonance Difference Valorization A genre of its own Imagining philosophies of science Notes Bibliography

32 POSTHUMANISM

Notes Bibliography

33 SCIENCE FICTION

Bibliography

34 SEMIOTICS

Semiology, structuralism, literature, and scientificity Contemporary semiotics, science, and the literary view Plain semiotics Bibliography

Part III PERIODS AND CULTURES

35 GREECE AND ROME

An “ancient quarrel”? Science and pretentiousness in Aristophanes’ Clouds Roman reconciliation? Abbreviations Notes Bibliography

36 MIDDLE AGES AND EARLY RENAISSANCE

Liberal arts and the encyclopedia Mathematics Astronomy Physics and technology Medicine Natural history: animals, plants, minerals Bibliography

Translations of primary sources cited Suggested secondary readings

37 SCIENTIFIC “REVOLUTION” I

Bibliography

38 SCIENTIFIC “REVOLUTION” II

Boyle, Noah, and the book of nature Newton’s fire From the Newtonian sublime to a clockwork universe Bibliography

39 ROMANTICISM

I II III IV Bibliography

40 INDUSTRIALISM

I II III IV Bibliography

41 RUSSIA

The Imperial Academy of Sciences and Peter the Great The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries The Soviet era Post-1991 Dedication Bibliography

42 JAPAN

Science, Japan Science, literature Bibliography

43 MODERNISM

Bibliography

44 POSTMODERNISM

Postmodern-ism, postmodern-ity, and postmodern-ization Postmodernism and literature Postmodernism and science Postmodern – science – fiction Bibliography

INDEX

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