Literary studies are at a tipping point. ." There is broad agreement that the discipline is in "crisis" - that it is aimless, that its intellectual energy is spent, that all of the trends are bad, and that fundamental change will be required to set things right. But there is little agreement on what those changes should be, and no one can predict which way things will ultimately tip.
Literature, Science, and a New Humanities represents a bold new response to the crisis in academic literary studies. This book presents a total challenge to dominant paradigms of literary analysis and offers a sweeping critique of those paradigms, and sketches outlines of a new paradigm inspired by scientific theories, methods, and attitudes.
- ISBN10 128219884X
- ISBN13 9781282198845
- Publish Date 1 January 2008
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 17 February 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Palgrave MacMillan
- Format eBook
- Pages 217
- Language English