Science Surveys and Histories of Literature
Reflections on an Uneasy Kinship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3433461 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Otis (0000-0001-5971-0101), Marcos Martínez Hernández (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 101 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 570-577 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Isis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-1753 • E-ISSN: 1545-6994 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/655794 |
| OpenAlex | W2000354191 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 4 |
With their common focus on narrative, literary scholars and historians of science share a close relationship with language and can offer each other valuable interpretive insights. Particularly revealing in each field are scientists' and literary writers' changing uses of metaphor, which is critical to each kind of scholarship since both disciplines place such a high value on cultural context. Any cross‐disciplinary help, however, needs to take into account the essential differences between the fields: contrasting views of what constitutes evidence and varying relationships with the past. Since both kinds of scholarship involve creating as well as analyzing narratives, each field has developed its own sense of pacing and significance, and their differing approaches to truth deserve respect
Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Discipline · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Focus (optics · Humanities · Kinship · Linguistics · Metaphor · Narrative · Political science · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Anthropology · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |