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Description:This book is the first to explore the scientific interests of Ian McEwan -- one of the most popular and respected contemporary British writers -- with the commitment and seriousness he himself has demonstrated, engaging with them as part of the texture of his literary output and as controversies of still wider interest in their own right. Garrard presents McEwan's novels and their analysis as part of the project E.O. Wilson has dubbed 'consilience, ' or the unification of knowledge across the disciplines.The book argues that scientific arguments are at once explicitly thematized in McEwan's novels and woven into his plots and characterization. Moreover, it shows how his scientific perspective has shifted over time, from the existentialist Freudianism of his early work, through his New Age-inflected reading of quantum physics in The Child in Time, to his recent fascination with evolutionary psychology and neuropsychology. While novelists and literary critics are poorly qualified to understand or participate in the 'first order' science of lab and field study, McEwan shows how we can contribute to scientific progress at a 'second order' philosophical and rhetorical level. This volume introduces scientific debates, such as the psychological basis of incest avoidance or the science of climate change, with the emphasis on the key theoretical and empirical disagreements that characterize them, and goes on to propose that McEwan's novels be seen as constructive interventions in those debates: 'singular' fictional experiments informed by, and potentially informing, repeatable scientific experiments. As such, it models a new relationship between literature, criticism, and science.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ian McEwan, Science, and the Contemporary Novel (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature). To get started finding Ian McEwan, Science, and the Contemporary Novel (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This book is the first to explore the scientific interests of Ian McEwan -- one of the most popular and respected contemporary British writers -- with the commitment and seriousness he himself has demonstrated, engaging with them as part of the texture of his literary output and as controversies of still wider interest in their own right. Garrard presents McEwan's novels and their analysis as part of the project E.O. Wilson has dubbed 'consilience, ' or the unification of knowledge across the disciplines.The book argues that scientific arguments are at once explicitly thematized in McEwan's novels and woven into his plots and characterization. Moreover, it shows how his scientific perspective has shifted over time, from the existentialist Freudianism of his early work, through his New Age-inflected reading of quantum physics in The Child in Time, to his recent fascination with evolutionary psychology and neuropsychology. While novelists and literary critics are poorly qualified to understand or participate in the 'first order' science of lab and field study, McEwan shows how we can contribute to scientific progress at a 'second order' philosophical and rhetorical level. This volume introduces scientific debates, such as the psychological basis of incest avoidance or the science of climate change, with the emphasis on the key theoretical and empirical disagreements that characterize them, and goes on to propose that McEwan's novels be seen as constructive interventions in those debates: 'singular' fictional experiments informed by, and potentially informing, repeatable scientific experiments. As such, it models a new relationship between literature, criticism, and science.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ian McEwan, Science, and the Contemporary Novel (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature). To get started finding Ian McEwan, Science, and the Contemporary Novel (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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