Editions Rodopi BV is pleased to announce following new publication(s) in
Comparative Literature:
* Tropes for the Past; Hayden White and the History / Literature Debate.
Edited by Kuisma Korhonen.
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2006. 175 pp.
(Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden
Literaturwissenschaft 96)
ISBN: 90-420-1718-X € 35,-/US$ 44.-
Online info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=IFAVL+96
* Remapping Reality; Chaos and Creativity in Science and Literature
(Goethe - Nietzsche - Grass).
John A. McCarthy.
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2006. 373 pp.
(Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden
Literaturwissenschaft 97)
ISBN: 90-420-1818-6 € 75,-/US$ 94.-
Online info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=IFAVL+97
More info:
* Tropes for the Past: Hayden White and the History / Literature Debate:
In the last decades, there has been an intense debate on the relationship
between literature and historiography, often linked to the debate
between “empiricists” and “postmodernists”. The aim of this collective
work is to address this debate, and to search for new ways of thinking and
encountering the past.
The key note for the book comes from Hayden White, one of the leading
academic figures, whose role in launching the contemporary
history/literature debate has been crucial. It is followed by three
critical readings of his work, all suggesting new ways to apply or
challenge his views. In other chapters of the book, history / literature
question is then addressed from three points of view: narrativity, history
as literature, and literature as history.
Tropes for the Past is an ideal introduction to the
literature/historiography debate and Hayden White’s role in it. It will be
of use for all students and scholars in the philosophy of history and in
historically oriented literary, cultural, and social studies.
* Remapping Reality; Chaos and Creativity in Science and Literature
(Goethe - Nietzsche - Grass):
This book is about intersections among science, philosophy, and
literature. It bridges the gap between the traditional “cultures” of
science and the humanities by constituting an area of interaction that
some have called a “third culture.” By asking questions about three
disciplines rather than about just two, as is customary in research, this
inquiry breaks new ground and resists easy categorization. It seeks to
answer the following questions: What impact has the remapping of reality
in scientific terms since the Copernican Revolution through
thermodynamics, relativity theory, and quantum mechanics had on the way
writers and thinkers conceptualized the place of human culture within the
total economy of existence? What influence, on the other hand, have
writers and philosophers had on the doing of science and on scientific
paradigms of the world? Thirdly, where does humankind fit into the total
picture with its uniquely moral nature? In other words, rather than
privileging one discipline over another, this study seeks to uncover a
common ground for science, ethics, and literary creativity.
Throughout this inquiry certain nodal points emerge to bond the argument
cogently together and create new meaning. These anchorl points are the
notion of movement inherent in all forms of existence, the changing
concepts of evil in the altered spaces of reality, and the creative
impulse critical to the literary work of art as well as to the expanding
universe. This ambitious undertaking is unified through its use of
phenomena typical of chaos and complexity theory as so many leitmotifs.
While they first emerged to explain natural phenomena at the quantum and
cosmic levels, chaos and complexity are equally apt for explaining moral
and aesthetic events. Hence, the title “Remapping Reality” extends to the
reconfigurations of the three main spheres of human interaction: the
physical, the ethical, and the aesthetic or creative.
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