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Amanda D'Angio wrote a new post on the site Reader and Text 9 years, 4 months ago
In my play analysis class, we read Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize winning play W;t. I was fortunate enough to have previously read this play in my AP Literature class senior year as well. I hold this play near […]
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Amanda D'Angio wrote a new post on the site Reader and Text 9 years, 5 months ago
My last post discussed the concepts of dimensions. This article suggests that the English major offers another dimension of knowledge.
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Ideal-English-Major/140553/
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Amanda D'Angio wrote a new post on the site Reader and Text 9 years, 5 months ago
This week I saw Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, and walking out of the theater I couldn’t help but draw parallels between that and Zulus. Like Zulus, Interstellar takes place in a future dystopian Earth […]
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Amanda D'Angio wrote a new post on the site Reader and Text 9 years, 6 months ago
Earlier this week, I had a professor guest lecture in my play analysis class about theater design. While I should have been paying attention to what he was saying about design concepts, I feverishly scribbled […]
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Amanda D'Angio wrote a new post on the site Reader and Text 9 years, 7 months ago
When I first read Martinez Alfaro’s “Intertextuality,” the concept of all texts arising from previous texts immediately reminded me of the cell theory; all cells arise from preexisting cells. Then, discovering the title of this week’s chapter of Interdisciplinarity, “Science, Space and Nature,” I was intrigued by what Moran could possibly say regarding this topic. Moran extensively discusses the concept of empiricism: the theory that all knowledge is derived from the sense experience. He opens his discussion by explaining that “Science’s self confidence has traditionally stemmed from its self-limitations…” (pg 137) From what I understand, scientific concepts are only as valid as the evidence that supports it. Science is taught as a “universal truth” according to Paul Feyerabend and he argues that there is no freedom to dissent from scientific knowledge. (pg 140) Although Moran depicts the separation between the sciences and literature, I believe they are inherently the same.
Science in its rawest form is “framed, discussed, and solved” (pg 141) Is literature not framed, discussed and solved as well? In science there is an existing problem or question, and as the scientist you formulate a hypothesis one may either challenge or agree with. Literature is the same. During the age of Enlightenment, Martin Luther challenged the Catholic Church with his experimental The Ninety-Five Thesis. Harriet Beecher Stowe challenged the concept of slavery with her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Each work of literature at the time seemed blasphemous, and yet didn’t each new scientific concept introduced to society seem just as ludicrous also? By reading this chapter, I have a fuller understanding of how the disciplines actually intertwine.
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