Science as writing
"For many years it has been assumed that a great gulf exists between science and the humanities, that the writings of science are simply the record of things scientists do and find and are devoid of literary features. Recently this assumption has been challenged by those who regard science and literature as companion endeavors, working side by side to describe, in their respective ways, the world of human experience. Now David Locke, a professor of literature who has also been a scientist, joins the debate, arguing that scientific language can be highly imaginative, expressive, and self-conscious and demonstrating for the first time how the major modes of literary criticism can be keys to the reading of scientific texts."
x, 237 pages ; 25 cm
9780300054521, 0300054521
25412010
Introduction: science and literature
Problematics of representation
Writing without expression
Rhetoric of science
Art of artless prose
Putative purity of science
Writing as reality
Reading science