Sins against Science: The Scientific Media Hoaxes of Poe, Twain, and Others (SUNY series, Studies in Scientific and Technical Communication) - Hardcover

Walsh, Lynda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791468771 ISBN 13: 9780791468777

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 2006

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Book by Walsh Lynda

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"As Walsh points out, there is no extended analysis of hoaxes in the rhetoric of science, and her book shows how important hoaxes are in understanding the history of professionalized science as it emerged in the United States. The relationship of science and the public is of utmost importance in science studies, and the author has identified a key source of historical information about this relationship."

"I found the book to be quite informative, not only as a technical exploration concerned with how readers interact with texts that promulgate hoaxes, but also as a work providing helpful glimpses of the emerging roles of science and media in this period."

Reseña del editor:

Lynda Walsh explores a provocative era in American history--the proliferation of fake news stories about scientific and technological discoveries from 1830 to 1880. These hoaxes, which fooled thousands of readers, offer a first-hand look at an intriguing guerilla tactic in the historical struggle between arts and sciences in America. Focusing on the hoaxes of Richard Adams Locke, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, and Dan De Quille, the author combines rhetorical hermeneutics, linguistic pragmatics, and reader-response theory to answer three primary questions: How did the hoaxes work? What were the hoaxers trying to accomplish? And--what is a hoax?

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• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0791468771
• ISBN 13: 9780791468777
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 308