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100 1 _aPrickett, Stephen.
245 1 0 _aNarrative, religion, and science :
_bfundamentalism versus irony, 1700-1999 /
_cStephen Prickett.
260 _aCambridge ;
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2002.
300 _aviii, 281 p. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 264-273) and index.
505 8 _aMachine 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.
650 0 _aNarration (Rhetoric)
_xHistory.
650 0 _aLiterature and science.
650 0 _aReligion and literature.
856 4 1 _3Sample text
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856 4 1 _3Table of contents
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856 4 2 _3Publisher description
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856 4 2 _3Contributor biographical information
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