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Remapping Reality
Author | : John Aloysius McCarthy |
Publsiher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789042018181 |
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This book is about intersections among science, philosophy, and literature. It bridges the gap between the traditional "cultures" of science and the humanities by constituting an area of interaction that some have called a "third culture." By asking questions about three disciplines rather than about just two, as is customary in research, this inquiry breaks new ground and resists easy categorization. It seeks to answer the following questions: What impact has the remapping of reality in scientific terms since the Copernican Revolution through thermodynamics, relativity theory, and quantum mechanics had on the way writers and thinkers conceptualized the place of human culture within the total economy of existence? What influence, on the other hand, have writers and philosophers had on the doing of science and on scientific paradigms of the world? Thirdly, where does humankind fit into the total picture with its uniquely moral nature? In other words, rather than privileging one discipline over another, this study seeks to uncover a common ground for science, ethics, and literary creativity. Throughout this inquiry certain nodal points emerge to bond the argument cogently together and create new meaning. These anchor points are the notion of movement inherent in all forms of existence, the changing concepts of evil in the altered spaces of reality, and the creative impulse critical to the literary work of art as well as to the expanding universe. This ambitious undertaking is unified through its use of phenomena typical of chaos and complexity theory as so many leitmotifs. While they first emerged to explain natural phenomena at the quantum and cosmic levels, chaos and complexity are equally apt for explaining moral and aesthetic events. Hence, the title "Remapping Reality" extends to the reconfigurations of the three main spheres of human interaction: the physical, the ethical, and the aesthetic or creative.
Remapping the Rhetorical Situation in Networked Culture
Author | : Ramesh Pokharel |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2021-06-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781527570481 |
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With the advent of new media and technology, the notion of the rhetorical situation has changed, and there is now the exigence of a new theory of the rhetorical situation that better incorporates such new notions. By bringing together critical theory of technology and theory of critical geography, along with rhetoric and language theory, this book proposes a new theory on the rhetorical situation that has more explanatory power, and accounts for, frames, critiques, and analyses the fundamental assumptions and beliefs on the rhetorical situation. This theory conceives the constituents of the rhetorical situations as indiscrete and non-linear entities. The book offers an innovative way to study the rhetorical situation in a new light that will broaden the research scope of rhetoric.
Joyce Penelope and the Body
Author | : Richard Brown |
Publsiher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789042019195 |
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Joyce, "Penelope" and the Body is a collection of twelve essays about "Penelope", the famous final episode of Joyce's Ulysses in relation to contemporary literary, cultural, philosophical and psychoanalytical theories of the body. As such it offers an unusually close look at that episode itself and it also becomes the very first book on Joyce that takes the idea of the body as its announced central theme. The contributors represented here come from England, Ireland, Europe and North America and they include some of the best established critics of Joyce alongside newcomers to academic publication. The essays include an encouraging diversity of approaches but they have in common a marked intellectual ambition, a surprisingly fresh and innovative approach and above all a devoted fascination for Joyce's text. Taken together they offer much new potential for the reading of Joyce and Modernism and a range of possibilities for understanding the body and its representation through language and in culture that have resonances across the cultural sphere.
The Mobile Story
Author | : Jason Farman |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2013-09-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781136169557 |
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What happens when stories meet mobile media? In this cutting-edge collection, contributors explore digital storytelling in ways that look beyond the desktop to consider how stories can be told through mobile, locative, and pervasive technologies. This book offers dynamic insights about the new nature of narrative in the age of mobile media, studying digital stories that are site-specific, context-aware, and involve the reader in fascinating ways. Addressing important topics for scholars, students, and designers alike, this collection investigates the crucial questions for this emerging area of storytelling and electronic literature. Topics covered include the histories of site-specific narratives, issues in design and practice, space and mapping, mobile games, narrative interfaces, and the interplay between memory, history, and community.
The Early History of Embodied Cognition 1740 1920
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2016-01-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789004309036 |
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It explores for the first time the life-force (Lebenskraft) debate in Germany, which was manifest in philosophical reflection, medical treatise, scientific experimentation, theoretical physics, aesthetic theory, and literary practice esp.1740-1920. The history of vitalism is considered in the context of contemporary discourses on radical reality (or deep naturalism).
Neuroscience and Religion
Author | : Volney P. Gay |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2009-08-16 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780739133934 |
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This is a unique set of multidisciplinary reflections on how the neurosciences shape our understanding of religious experience and religious institutions. Twelve scholars and scientists assess how advances in the neurosciences affect our traditional sense of mind, self, and soul.
Practicing Progress
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789401203937 |
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Practicing Progress focuses on the German Enlightenment in its dual manifestation as a cultural era and as a mode of discourse. The volume’s unifying theme is the promise and limitations of the Enlightenment, as seen from the twenty-first century. Contributors deal with figures from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries in theology, poetry and drama, economic theory, and music. Included are such powerful critics of the politics of progress as Friedrich Nietzsche, Hannah Arendt, and Bertolt Brecht. The volume is of particular interest to scholars concerned with the complexity of literary phenomena. A variety of interpretive approaches yield fresh insights into the still ongoing project of Enlightenment.
Writing a Politics of Perception
Author | : Dawn Thompson |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0802043658 |
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Looking at five novels by women writing in Canada, Thompson develops a theory of 'holographic memory, ' in which texts are performances that invite constant revision, remodelling, and interaction between narrative, memory, and, potentially, reality.