Popularization of Science as The Autobiography of Science  

Oleh:

Jurdant, Baudouin

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Public Understanding of Science vol. 2 no. 4 (Okt. 1993), page 365-373.
Fulltext: 365PUS24.pdf (496.19KB)

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In this paper I investigate the status of popular science texts as a literary genre, and ask how a text can be recognized as belonging to that genre. To determine this I compare popular science texts with science fiction, which indicates that it is popular science’s truth claims which give the literary genre of popular science its place in literature as a whole. However, critics have argued that literature is not concerned with truth, which implies that popular science texts-despite being written documents-are not literature. To resolve this I compare popular science with autobiography-another genre which makes truth claims-and examine the products of their shared intention of telling the truth about the natural world in thecaseofpopular scienceand about ‘oneself‘ in thecaseofautobiography.

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