[PDF] Connecting Literature And Science eBook

Author : Jay A. Labinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 16,11 MB
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 1000472922

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This book presents a case for engagement between the sciences and the humanities. The author, a professional chemist, seeks to demonstrate that the connections between those fields of intellectual activity are far more significant than anything that separates them. The book combines a historical survey of the relationships between science and literature with a number of case studies that examine specific scientific episodes—several drawn from the author’s own research—juxtaposed with a variety of literary works spanning a wide range of period and genre—Dante to detective fiction, War and Peace to White Teeth—to elicit their common themes. The work argues for an empirical, non-theory-based approach, one that is closely analogous to connectionist models of brain development and function, and that can appeal to general readers, as well as to literary scholars and practicing scientists, who are open to the idea that literature and science should not be compartmentalized.

Author : Bruce Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 44,63 MB
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136950427

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With forty-four newly commissioned articles from an international cast of leading scholars, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science traces the network of connections among literature, science, technology, mathematics, and medicine. Divided into three main sections, this volume: links diverse literatures to scientific disciplines from Artificial Intelligence to Thermodynamics surveys current theoretical and disciplinary approaches from Animal Studies to Semiotics traces the history and culture of literature and science from Greece and Rome to Postmodernism. Ranging from classical origins and modern revolutions to current developments in cultural science studies and the posthumanities, this indispensible volume offers a comprehensive resource for undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers. With authoritative, accessible, and succinct treatments of the sciences in their literary dimensions and cultural frameworks, here is the essential guide to this vibrant area of study.

Author : Deborah Plona Cerbus
Publisher : Teacher Created Resources
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,99 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781557343413

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Reproducible pages provide specific strategies and activities for integrating early elementary science curriculum with more than 40 related children's literature selections.

Author : Jo-Anne Lake
Publisher : Pembroke Publishers Limited
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 25,26 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literature and science
ISBN : 1551381265

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"Literature & Science Breakthroughs offers strategies for using fiction and non-fiction...to bring all aspects of science to life for children." -- BACK COVER.

Author : Valerie Bang-Jensen
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 42,17 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780325087740

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Science is everywhere, in everything we do, see, and read. Books-all books-offer possibilities for talk about science in the illustrations and text once you know how to look for them. Children's literature is a natural avenue to explore the seven crosscutting concepts described in the Next Generation Science Standards*, and with guidance from Valerie Bang-Jensen and Mark Lubkowitz, you will learn to develop the mindset necessary to think like a scientist, and then help your students think, talk, and read like scientists. Sharing Books Talking Science is an engaging and user-friendly guide that provides practical, real world understandings of complex scientific concepts using children's literature. By demonstrating how to work in a very familiar and comfortable teaching context-read aloud-to address what may be less familiar and comfortable content-scientific concepts-Valerie and Mark empower teachers to use just about any book in their classroom to help deepen students' understanding of the world. Valerie and Mark supply you with everything you need to know to get to the heart of each concept, including a primer, questions and strategies to spot a concept, and ways to prompt students to see and talk about it. Each chapter offers a list of suggested titles (many of which you probably already have) to help you get started right away, as well as "topic spotlight" sections that help you connect the concepts to familiar topics such as eating, seasons, bridges, size, and water. With Sharing Books Talking Science, you will have the tools and confidence to explore scientific concepts with your students. Learn how to "talk science" with any book so that you can infuse your curriculum with scientific thinking...even when you aren't teaching science. *Next Generation Science Standards is a registered trademark of Achieve. Neither Achieve nor the lead states and partners that developed the Next Generation Science Standards were involved in the production of this product, and do not endorse it.

Author : J. Gottschall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 11,54 MB
Release : 2008-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230615597

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Literary studies are at a tipping point. ." There is broad agreement that the discipline is in "crisis" - that it is aimless, that its intellectual energy is spent, that all of the trends are bad, and that fundamental change will be required to set things right. But there is little agreement on what those changes should be, and no one can predict which way things will ultimately tip. Literature, Science, and a New Humanities represents a bold new response to the crisis in academic literary studies. This book presents a total challenge to dominant paradigms of literary analysis and offers a sweeping critique of those paradigms, and sketches outlines of a new paradigm inspired by scientific theories, methods, and attitudes.

Author : Steven Meyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 34,39 MB
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107079721

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This Companion shows how literature and science inform one another and that they're more closely aligned than they typically appear.

Author : Márcia Diana Fernandes Lemos
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 27,59 MB
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 1443876054

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This collection of essays responds to the intense interest that the relations between the discourses of literature (and other cultural practices) and those of science have obtained throughout various fields of study. Spanning a period between the mid-nineteenth century and the twenty-first century, the work collected here is firmly focused on the cultural significance of scientific discoveries and practices, and especially on the manifold representations of science and scientists in literature and the arts. Its four sections develop from an initial moment of dwindling indefiniteness of borders between literature and the sciences to the historical perception of an increasing divide between “the two cultures,” to use C.P. Snow’s influential expression, as well as calls for a form of convergence or “consilience” in Edward Wilson’s words. The final section turns to the medical sciences, a porous scientific discipline in relation to the humanities, which suggests that consilience can already be found partially in specific areas. As such, this collection contributes towards critically extending that integration through the discussion of key literary representations of science, its promises, and its problems.

Author : John W. Butzow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,12 MB
Release : 1998-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0313077932

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Due to popular demand, the Butzows have put together more fascinating thematic units that make science more exciting for young learners. Each chapter focuses on an individual book and includes vocabulary; concepts; applications; and a wide variety of activities, including hands-on and inquiry-based topics, games, puzzles, word searches, and more. The authors' approach helps connect the conceptual content to real-life experiences. Physical, life, earth, space, and environmental sciences are included.