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Author Swirski, Peter

Title Between literature and science : Poe, Lem, and explorations in aesthetics, cognitive science, and literary knowledge / Peter Swirski
Published Montreal ; Ithica [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 183 pages)
Contents 1 Pragmatic Side of Aesthetics 3 -- 2 Towards a New Epistemology 27 -- 3 An Essay in Cosmology 49 -- 4 There Is Science in My Philosophy 71 -- 5 Future History of Biterature 92 -- 6 Of Machines and Men 116 -- Conclusion: No Discipline Is an Island 138
Summary "Through close analysis of Eureka and The Purloined Letter, Peter Swirski evaluates Poe's epistemological theses in the light of contemporary philosophy of science and presents literary interpretation as a cooperative game played by the author and reader, thereby illuminating how we read fiction. The analysis of Poe's little-studied Eureka provides the basis for his discussion of Lem's critique of scientific reductionism and futurological forecasts. Drawing on his own interviews with Lem as well as analysis of his works, Swirski considers the author's scenarios involving computers capable of creative acts and discusses their socio-cultural implications. His analysis leads to bold arguments about the nature of literature and its relation to a broad range of other disciplines."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-180) and index
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Subject Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Knowledge -- Science
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Purloined letter
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Eureka.
Lem, Stanisław -- Knowledge -- Science
SUBJECT Lem, Stanisław fast
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 fast
Poe, Edgar Allan. swd
Lem, Stanis·law. swd
Eureka (Poe, Edgar Allan) fast
Purloined letter (Poe, Edgar Allan) fast
Subject Literature and science.
Aesthetics, American.
Cognitive science.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
Aesthetics, American
Cognitive science
Literature and science
Science
Literatur
Naturwissenschaften
Philosophie
Letterkunde.
Filosofie.
Wetenschap.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773568372
0773568379