The science of literature : essays on an incalculable difference / Helmut Müller-Sievers ; Translated by Chadwick Truscott Smith, Paul Babinski, and Helmut Müller-Sievers ; with an afterword by David E. Wellbery.

Do literary texts provide distinctive access to the history of science? Is the study of literature based on scientific procedures? Is there a connection between scientific processes and literary forms? The essays in this collection show how literary and scientific texts from the late 18th to the lat...

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Main Author: Müller-Sievers, Helmut (Author, Translator)
Other Authors: Smith, Chadwick Truscott (Translator), Babinski, Paul (Translator), Wellbery, David E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]
Series:Paradigms (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ; v. 1.
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505 0 |a Introduction: -- A science of literature? 1 -- 1) poetics of the life sciences 13 -- Formative forces: Biological, philosophical, and linguistic generativity 15 -- Divining relations: Forms of generational recognition around 1800 34 -- Tidings of the earth: towards a history of romantic Erdkunde 47 -- On nerve fibers: rhetoric and brain anatomy in Georg Büchner 69 -- 2) the science of reading 91 -- Reading off: On the emergence of the scientific gaze 93 -- On the margins of Derrida's terminology: Deconstruction, dissemination, mise en abîme 107 -- What does it mean to orient oneself in thinking? 123 -- A tremendous chasm: Nietzsche, the birth of tragedy, and the measure of poetry 141 -- 3) the Applied science of literature 163 -- Torque: life and motion in the 19th century 165 -- A doctrine of transmissions: on the classification of machines around 1800 176 -- The novel machine: narration in the 19th century 195 -- The moment of narration: outlines for a kinematic study -- Of Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre 209 -- Afterword by David E. Wellbery 227 -- List of first publications 239 -- Bibliography 241. 
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