Physics and Literature : : concepts - transfer - aestheticization / / edited by Aura Heydenreich, Klaus R. Mecke.

• Superior document: Literatur- und Naturwissenschaften ; Band 3
• TeilnehmendeR: Heydenreich, Aura Maria,; Mecke, Klaus R., 1964-
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Literatur- und Naturwissenschaften ; Band 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (411 pages).
• Other title: Physics and Literature
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Aura Heydenreich, Klaus R. Mecke.

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 to discuss relations between literature and science in one-sided and polarizing ways. The collection is the result of the inaugural conference of ELINAS, the Erlangen Center for Literature and Natural Science, an initiative dedicated to building bridges between literary and scientific research. ELINAS revitalizes discussion of science-literature interconnections with new topics, ideas and angles, by organizing genuine dialogue among participants across disciplinary lines.The essays explore how scientific thought and practices are conditioned by narrative and genre, fiction, models and metaphors, and how science in turn feeds into the meaning-making of literary and philosophical texts. These interdisciplinary encounters enrich reflections on epistemology, cognition and aesthetics.