The latest issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews brings together papers on literature and science from different countries and using diverse methodologies, mostly presented at the last Commission on Science and Literature conference in Girona in July 2022. To view the issue online, click here. The full contents of the issue are given below.
Interfaces: Studies in Science and Literature – Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 48.3 (2023) Edited by Carlos Gamez-Perez and John Holmes
- Humbert Massegur, Preface [open access]
- Carlos Gamez-Perez, Introduction [open access]
- Benito García-Valero, ‘Queerness in science and literature: towards a “naturalization” of the queer in the crossroads of physics, biology, and literary theory’
- Lidia Bocanegra Barbecho, Salvador Ros Muñoz, Elena González-Blanco García and Maurizio Toscano, ‘Digital humanities at global scale’
- Julien Jacques Simon, ‘Why do we engage (and keep engaging) in tragic and sad stories? Negativity bias and engagement in narratives eliciting negative feelings’
- Isabel Jaén-Portillo, ‘Can fiction lead to prosocial behaviour? Exclusion, violence, empathy, and literature in early modernity’ [open access]
- Jorge García López, ‘Science, philosophy and literature in the early Spanish Enlightenment: the case of Martin Martinez’
- Wolfgang Funk ‘“Life built herself a myriad forms”: epics of gestation and co-operation in late nineteenth-century women’s poetry’
- Michael H. Whitworth, ‘Wide horizons: science and epic in Mina Loy’s “Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose” and C. Day Lewis’s From Feathers to Iron’ [open access]
- John Holmes, ‘The poetics of enquiry in Ronald Duncan’s Man’ [open access]
- Sophia Denissi, ‘Sherlock Holmes saving Mr. Venizelos: using science in an early Greek crime fiction novel’
- Maria Vara, ‘The magic lantern as a Gothic literary instrument’
- Timothy Ryan Day, ‘Immortal codes: genetics, ghosts, and Shakespeare’s sonnets’
- Constantin Canavas, ‘When a woman becomes a plant: looking at philosophical discourses through literary narratives’
- George Levine, ‘Science and literature: the importance of differences’
