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Science and American Literature
in the 20
th
and 21
st
Centuries
Science and American Literature
in the 20
th
and 21
st
Centuries:
From Henry Adams to John Adams
Edited by
Claire Maniez, Ronan Ludot-Vlasak
and Frédéric Dumas
Science and American Literature in the 20th and 21st Centuries:
From Henry Adams to John Adams,
Edited by Claire Maniez, Ronan Ludot-Vlasak and Frédéric Dumas
This book first published 2012
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
12 Back Chapman Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2XX, UK
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Copyright © 2012 by Claire Maniez, Ronan Ludot-Vlasak and Frédéric Dumas and contributors
All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,
or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or
otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner.
ISBN (10): 1-4438-3519-6, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-3519-0
T
ABLE OF
C
ONTENTS
Introduction ............................................................................................... vii
Claire Maniez (University Stendhal Grenoble 3, France)
Part I: Literature as a History of Science
Chapter One................................................................................................. 3
The Grammar of Sciences in
The Education of Henry Adams
Michel Imbert (University Denis Diderot Paris 7, France)
Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 19
Deadpan to Demonic—Subtextual Uses of Science in Thomas Pynchon’s
Inherent Vice
Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd (Poitiers University, France)
Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 31
From Bosons to Titans: the Genealogy of Science in Thomas Pynchon’s
Mason & Dixon
Gilles Chamerois (Brest University, France)
Part II: Literature and Neurosciences
Chapter Four .............................................................................................. 51
A Comparative Epistemology for Literary Theory and Neurosciences
Noëlle Batt (University Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis, France)
Chapter Five ............................................................................................. 71
Alan Turing’s Imitation Game and the Literary Imagination
Yves Abrioux (University Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis, France)
Chapter Six .............................................................................................. 103
Mind-reading—Science Fiction and Neurosciences
Pawel Frelik (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland)

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