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Literature and Science II

Session 8 - Sunday 2:45-4:15pm
Henry Hall 107
Presiding Officer: 
Roswitha Burwick
Session Chair (if other than PO): 
Karin Bauer
  1. Eatdirtzian Geosophy: Exploring the Interface between Geography and Literary Criticism. Emma Joel, University of Newcastle, Australia

    This paper proposes an Eatdirtzian Geosophical discourse as a means for accessing geographic knowledges within narratives. It focuses on establishing a space for Eatdirtzian Geosophy by reconsidering epistemological and disciplinary concerns in Geography; and its usefulness in literary criticism.

  2. Orient as Otherness in German Literature. Hamid Tafazoli, University of Washington

    Goethe’s “West-East Divan” shows the relationship between literature and oriental studies as a trend in German literature. Not only the structure of the “Divan” in lyric and prose (poem and discourse), but also Goethe’s method in the lyric and prose part circumstantiate the complex relationship between literature and science.

  3. The Indeterminacy of ALP’s Wavelengths: Further Consideration of Quantum and Astrophysics in Finnegans Wake . Matthew James Bond, University of California, Riverside

    Developing further the research done in regard to the intersection of high literature and modern science, this paper explores how one may come to interpret the abstract concepts of modern physics using Finnegans Wake as textual manifestation.

  4. Mary Wollstonecraft’s Female Imbeciles. Molly Desjardins, University of Northern Colorado

    This paper reads Mary Wollstonecraft’s attack on female imbecility in the context of contemporaneous medical discourse.

Session Type: 
Special Session
Session Status: 
Closed