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Narrative, religion, and science : fundamentalism versus irony, 1700-1999 / / Stephen Prickett [[electronic resource]]
| Narrative, religion, and science : fundamentalism versus irony, 1700-1999 / / Stephen Prickett [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Prickett Stephen |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 281 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 808 |
| Soggetto topico |
Narration (Rhetoric) - History
Literature and science Religion and literature |
| ISBN |
1-107-12527-8
1-280-41955-5 0-511-17630-9 0-511-04222-1 0-511-15708-8 0-511-32952-0 0-511-61345-8 0-511-04513-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: 1 Postmodernism, grand narratives and just-so stories -- Postmodernism and grand narratives -- Just-so stories -- Narrative and irony -- Language, culture and reality -- 2 Newton and Kissinger: Science as irony? -- Said, Kissinger and Newton -- Revolutions and paradigms -- Models of reality -- Ambiguity and irony -- 3 Learning to say 'I': Literature and subjectivity -- Interior and exterior worlds -- The idea of literature -- The ideal of the fragment -- Two kinds of truth? -- 4 Reconstructing religion: Fragmentation, typology -- and symbolism -- From religion to religions -- Religions of nature and of the heart -- Millenarian fragments and organic wholes -- The aesthetics of irony: Keble and Rossetti -- 5 The ache in the missing limb: Language, truth and -- presence -- Coleridge: The language of the Bible -- Newman: The physiognomy of development -- Polanyi: The origins of meaning -- Steiner, Derrida and Hart: Presence and absence -- 6 Twentieth-century fundamentalisms: Theology, truth -- and irony -- Rorty: Language and reality -- Postmodernism and poetic language: Religion as aesthetics -- Logos and logothete: Reading reality -- 7 Science and religion: Language, metaphor and -- consilience -- Etching with universal acid -- Language as change -- A rebirth of images -- The fabric of the universe -- Concluding conversational postscript: The tomb -- of Napoleon. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Narrative, Religion & Science |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450020003321 |
Prickett Stephen
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| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Narrative, religion, and science : fundamentalism versus irony, 1700-1999 / / Stephen Prickett [[electronic resource]]
| Narrative, religion, and science : fundamentalism versus irony, 1700-1999 / / Stephen Prickett [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Prickett Stephen |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 281 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 808 |
| Soggetto topico |
Narration (Rhetoric) - History
Literature and science Religion and literature |
| ISBN |
1-107-12527-8
1-280-41955-5 0-511-17630-9 0-511-04222-1 0-511-15708-8 0-511-32952-0 0-511-61345-8 0-511-04513-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: 1 Postmodernism, grand narratives and just-so stories -- Postmodernism and grand narratives -- Just-so stories -- Narrative and irony -- Language, culture and reality -- 2 Newton and Kissinger: Science as irony? -- Said, Kissinger and Newton -- Revolutions and paradigms -- Models of reality -- Ambiguity and irony -- 3 Learning to say 'I': Literature and subjectivity -- Interior and exterior worlds -- The idea of literature -- The ideal of the fragment -- Two kinds of truth? -- 4 Reconstructing religion: Fragmentation, typology -- and symbolism -- From religion to religions -- Religions of nature and of the heart -- Millenarian fragments and organic wholes -- The aesthetics of irony: Keble and Rossetti -- 5 The ache in the missing limb: Language, truth and -- presence -- Coleridge: The language of the Bible -- Newman: The physiognomy of development -- Polanyi: The origins of meaning -- Steiner, Derrida and Hart: Presence and absence -- 6 Twentieth-century fundamentalisms: Theology, truth -- and irony -- Rorty: Language and reality -- Postmodernism and poetic language: Religion as aesthetics -- Logos and logothete: Reading reality -- 7 Science and religion: Language, metaphor and -- consilience -- Etching with universal acid -- Language as change -- A rebirth of images -- The fabric of the universe -- Concluding conversational postscript: The tomb -- of Napoleon. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Narrative, Religion & Science |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782953603321 |
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Prickett Stephen
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| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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