Understanding Scientific Prose (Rhetoric of the Human Sciences) - Softcover

 
9780299139049: Understanding Scientific Prose (Rhetoric of the Human Sciences)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0299139042 ISBN 13: 9780299139049
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

    Examining science as a rhetorical enterprise, this book seizes upon one scientific essay―"The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme"―and probes it from many angles.  Written by prominent evolutionary theorists Stephen Jay Gould and Richard C. Lewontin and first published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London in 1979, the "Spandrels" article is both serious science and vivid prose.
    The essays here do not comment on the scientific merit of Gould and Lewontin’s essay, but rather use it as an example to demonstrate and test new analytical approaches to scientific rhetoric.  Applying methods inspired by  Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Ferdinand de Saussure, and others, the contributors employ a range of interpretive strategies:  from postmodernist, intertextualist, feminist, structuralist, historicist, sociolinguistic, dramatist, and deconstructionist approaches to readings based on reader-response theory, protocol analysis, the sociology of science, and classical rhetorical theory.
    Stephen Jay Gould submits his own retrospective in the final chapter, remarking on the genesis and reception of "Spandrels" and on the critical analyses of his work gathered here.  The full text of "The Spandrels of San Marco" is reproduced as an appendix.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jack Selzer is professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Kenneth Burke in Greenwich Village, published by University of Wisconsin Press, and is currently working on a sequel. Sharon Crowley is professor of English at Arizona State University. She is the author of Composition in the University and is currently working on a critique of liberal rhetorical theory.

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Verlag
University of Wisconsin Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0299139042
ISBN 13 
9780299139049
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
406
Herausgeber
Selzer Jack
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