ABSTRACT

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.

part |3 pages

PART I Literatures and sciences

chapter 1|13 pages

AI AND ALIFE

chapter 2|12 pages

ALCHEMY

chapter 3|12 pages

BIOLOGY

chapter 4|10 pages

CHAOS AND COMPLEXITY THEORY

chapter 5|12 pages

CHEMISTRY

chapter 6|14 pages

CLIMATE SCIENCE

chapter 7|12 pages

COGNITIVE SCIENCE

chapter 8|11 pages

CYBERNETICS

chapter 9|12 pages

ECOLOGY

chapter 10|12 pages

EVOLUTION

chapter 11|11 pages

GENETICS

chapter 12|10 pages

GEOLOGY

chapter 13|12 pages

Information theory PHILIPP SCHWEIGHAUSER

chapter 14|12 pages

MATHEMATICS

chapter 15|12 pages

MEDICINE

chapter 16|11 pages

NANOTECHNOLOGY

chapter 17|11 pages

PHYSICS

chapter 18|11 pages

PSYCHOANALYSIS

chapter 19|12 pages

SYSTEMS THEORY

chapter 20|13 pages

THERMODYNAMICS

part |3 pages

PART II Disciplinary and theoretical approaches

chapter 21|11 pages

AGRICULTURAL STUDIES

chapter 22|11 pages

ANIMAL STUDIES

chapter 23|12 pages

ART CONNECTIONS

chapter 24|11 pages

CULTURAL SCIENCE STUDIES

chapter 25|11 pages

DECONSTRUCTION

chapter 26|14 pages

E-LITERATURE

chapter 28|12 pages

GAME STUDIES

chapter 29|14 pages

History of science HENNING SCHMIDGEN

chapter 30|13 pages

MEDIA STUDIES

chapter 31|12 pages

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

chapter 32|11 pages

POSTHUMANISM

chapter 33|11 pages

Science fiction

chapter 34|11 pages

SEMIOTICS

part |2 pages

PART III Periods and cultures

chapter 35|14 pages

GREECE AND ROME

chapter 36|15 pages

MIDDLE AGES AND EARLY RENAISSANCE

chapter 39|12 pages

Romanticism NOAH HERINGMAN

chapter 40|12 pages

INDUSTRIALISM

chapter 41|11 pages

RUSSIA

chapter 42|11 pages

JAPAN

chapter 43|10 pages

MODERNISM

chapter 44|11 pages

POSTMODERNISM