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9780299139049: Understanding Scientific Prose
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ISBN 10: 0299139042 ISBN 13: 9780299139049
Casa editrice: Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 1993

Sinossi

    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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Informazioni sull?autore

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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Editore
Univ of Wisconsin Pr
Data di pubblicazione
1993
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0299139042
ISBN 13 
9780299139049
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
406
Redattore
Selzer Jack
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