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The Science of Literature - Essays on an Incalculable Difference. Nachwort: Wellbery, David E.

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One of the most contentious questions in contemporary literary studies is whether there can ever be a science of literature that can lay claim to objectivity and universality, for example by concentrating on philological criticism, by appealing to cognitive science, or by exposing the underlying media of literary communication.
The present collection of essays seeks to open up this discussion by posing the question's historical and systematic double: has there been a science of literature, i.e. a mode of presentation and practice of reference in science that owes its coherence to the discourse of literature? Detailed analyses of scientific, literary and philosophical texts show that from the late 18th to the late 19th century science and literature were bound to one another through an intricate web of mutual dependence and distinct yet incalculable difference. The Science of Literature suggests that this legacy continues to shape the relation between literary and scientific discourses inside and outside of academia.

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Helmut Müller-Sievers, University of Colorado Boulder, USA.

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"Müller-Sievers zeigt anhand eines eindrucksvollen, breit gefächerten Wissensspektrums, wie die Formenerzeugung vonstattengeht. Literarische Zeugung erfolgt dabei nicht auf einem abgespaltenen fiktionalen Feld, sondern ist vielmehr selbst Teil der Wissensgeburten. [...] Die Texte dieser ausgesuchten Aufsatzsammlung weisen stets auf die Bewegung als eine alles bedingende Form von Lebendigkeit hin, welche in der literarischen Narration präsent ist. Die Bewegungsberührung überwindet dabei die Dichotomie des fiktionalen und faktualen Feldes zugunsten einer Science of Literature."
Sandy Scheffler in: literaturkritik.de 9(2015)



Product details

Authors Helmut Müller-Sievers
Assisted by David E. Wellbery (Editor)
Publisher De Gruyter
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.04.2015
 
EAN 9783110323948
ISBN 978-3-11-032394-8
No. of pages 270
Dimensions 161 mm x 20 mm x 235 mm
Weight 516 g
Illustrations 5 b/w ill.
Series Paradigms
Paradigms
ISSN
Paradigms, 1
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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