Klaus Mecke
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Physics and literature are two forms of knowing the world that are both complementary and contingent. Poetical-physical ways of writing and metaphors in physical theories are two sides of a coin. Interviews with Ulrike Draesner, Durs Grünbein, Michael Hampe, Jens Harder, Reinhard Jirgl, Thomas Lehr, Ulrich Woelk, and Juli Zeh enrich our knowledge of these two cultures through voices familiar with both sides.
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Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Fragen und Antworten der Hirnforschung, Quantenmechanik oder Evolutionstheorie gehen in Romane ein, und Physiker oder Biologen verwenden rhetorische Sprachbilder, um ihre Erkenntnisse zu vermitteln oder sogar erst zu generieren. Dass literarische und wissenschaftliche Interessen sich nicht nur überschneiden, sondern im Kern eins sind, das war zu Keplers, Lichtenbergs oder Goethes Zeiten noch selbstverständlich. Sie wieder allgemein so sichtbar zu...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
In the Middle Ages and early modernity, celestial observation was frequently a subject for verbal rather than numerical and geometrical recording. These records can now be difficult to decode, since what they address is frequently obscured by formal conventions of genre, imagery, rhetoric, prosody, to name but a few. The volume collects essays exploring such configurations between literature and observation from Europe to China. How, contributors...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Physics and Literature is a unique collaboration between physicists, literary scholars, and philosophers, the first collection of essays to examine together how science and literature, beneath their practical differences, share core dimensions - forms of questioning, thinking, discovering and communicating insights.This book advances an in-depth exploration of relations between physics and literature from both perspectives. It turns around the tendency...

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