[1] From: Debra Journet <DSJOUR01@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU> (31)
Subject: Narrative in the historical sciences
[2] From: Hanna Kahana <kahanah@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il> ( )
Subject: Re: 9.694 item found; Speer as architect
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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 18:31:10 -0400
From: Debra Journet <DSJOUR01@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU>
Subject: Narrative in the historical sciences
[The following note I have lifted, with many thanks, from DARWIN-L,
anticipating that several Humanists will find it very useful. --WM]
Professor and Chair, Dept. of English
Phone: 502-852-6801 Fax: 502-852-4182
I work in the rhetoric of science (an English faculty member) and have been
interested in the role of narrative in the physical sciences for a while.
I have found the following (most of which deal with the representation
of narrative) quite useful:
Miller, C. and S. M. Halloran. "Reading Darwin, Reading Nature: Or, on
the Ethos of Historical Science." Understanding Scientific Prose. Ed.
J. Selzer. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993, 106-126.
Myers, G. Writing Biology: Texts in the Social Construction of Scientific
Knowledge. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
Mitchell, W.J.T., ed. On Narrative. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1981. [Essays dealing with narrative in a number of disciplines, including
psychoanalysis, history, anthropology]
These may be outside the interests of Darwin-L readers, but two works which
are useful in showing how representations of Darwinian narratives influenced
larger cultural narratives include
Beer, G. Darwin's Plots. London: Ark, 1983.
Levine, G. Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian
Fiction. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
Examples of my own work applying narrative theory to biological texts
include
Journet, Debra. "Ecological Theories as Cultural Narratives: F.E.
Clements's and H. A. Gleason's 'Stories' of Community Succession."
Written Communication. 1991 (8), 446-472.
Journet, Debra. "Synthesizing Disciplinary Narratives: George Gaylord
Simpson's Tempo and Mode in Evolution." Social Epistemology. 1995 (9),
113-150.
Debra Journet
Department of English, University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
dsjour01@ulkyvm.louisville.edu
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Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 07:13:37 +0200 (WET)
From: Hanna Kahana <kahanah@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il>
Subject: Re: 9.694 item found; Speer as architect
Thank you all for your responses re Totalitarian Architecture.