Intuition and authority: literary expression and scientific communication
dc.contributor | McElroy, Tricia | |
dc.contributor | Cook, Alex | |
dc.contributor | Dowd, Michelle | |
dc.contributor | Peterson, Erik | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Ainsworth, David | |
dc.contributor.author | Emerson, Daniel Geoffrey | |
dc.contributor.other | University of Alabama Tuscaloosa | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-01-16T15:03:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-01-16T15:03:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.description | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | In my dissertation, I investigate how images—whether pictorial, poetic, or narrative—determine and change human intuitions about the natural world. I argue that by adopting form and content from one another, literary and scientific writers alike break and reframe their reader’s intuition. George Herbert, John Milton, Andrew Marvell, and Margaret Cavendish, on the one hand, and Galileo, Paracelsus, and Kepler, on the other demonstrate that narrative, poetic, and pictorial images are instrumental in rendering the world intelligible and intuitive. In my first chapter, I provides a survey of sixteenth-century writers from Chaucer to Spenser and from Copernicus to Bacon, showing how they construct authority and attempt to rewrite intuitions about nature and her students. My subsequent chapters on physics, chemistry, and astronomy explore how conventions in poetry and fiction facilitate the communication of novel ideas. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 208 p. | |
dc.format.medium | electronic | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.identifier.other | u0015_0000001_0003431 | |
dc.identifier.other | Emerson_alatus_0004D_13981 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/6488 | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | University of Alabama Libraries | |
dc.relation.hasversion | born digital | |
dc.relation.ispartof | The University of Alabama Electronic Theses and Dissertations | |
dc.relation.ispartof | The University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections | |
dc.rights | All rights reserved by the author unless otherwise indicated. | en_US |
dc.subject | Literature | |
dc.title | Intuition and authority: literary expression and scientific communication | en_US |
dc.type | thesis | |
dc.type | text | |
etdms.degree.department | University of Alabama. Department of English | |
etdms.degree.discipline | English | |
etdms.degree.grantor | The University of Alabama | |
etdms.degree.level | doctoral | |
etdms.degree.name | Ph.D. |
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