02713cam a22003374a 4500 12538590 BD-DhUL 20161229172608.0 010919s2002 enk b 001 0 eng 2001043849 0521811368 (hbk.) 0521009839 (pbk.) DLC DLC DLC BD-DhUL pcc PN212 .P75 2002 808 21 PRN Prickett, Stephen. Narrative, religion, and science : fundamentalism versus irony, 1700-1999 / Stephen Prickett. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002. viii, 281 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-273) and index. Machine generated contents note: 1 Postmodernism, grand narratives and just-so stories -- Postmodernism and grand narratives -- Just-so stories -- Narrative and irony -- Language, culture and reality -- 2 Newton and Kissinger: Science as irony? -- Said, Kissinger and Newton -- Revolutions and paradigms -- Models of reality -- Ambiguity and irony -- 3 Learning to say 'I': Literature and subjectivity -- Interior and exterior worlds -- The idea of literature -- The ideal of the fragment -- Two kinds of truth? -- 4 Reconstructing religion: Fragmentation, typology -- and symbolism -- From religion to religions -- Religions of nature and of the heart -- Millenarian fragments and organic wholes -- The aesthetics of irony: Keble and Rossetti -- 5 The ache in the missing limb: Language, truth and -- presence -- Coleridge: The language of the Bible -- Newman: The physiognomy of development -- Polanyi: The origins of meaning -- Steiner, Derrida and Hart: Presence and absence -- 6 Twentieth-century fundamentalisms: Theology, truth -- and irony -- Rorty: Language and reality -- Postmodernism and poetic language: Religion as aesthetics -- Logos and logothete: Reading reality -- 7 Science and religion: Language, metaphor and -- consilience -- Etching with universal acid -- Language as change -- A rebirth of images -- The fabric of the universe -- Concluding conversational postscript: The tomb -- of Napoleon. Narration (Rhetoric) History. Literature and science. Religion and literature. Sample text http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam033/2001043849.html Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam023/2001043849.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam022/2001043849.html Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0731/2001043849-b.html ddc BK 144232 144232 0 0 ddc 0 808_000000000000000_PRN 0 NFIC 271099 DUL DUL GEN 2016-12-29 Purchased 808 PRN 406350 2016-12-29 1 2016-12-29 BK