Author: Jon Adams
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Erickson, Paul, The World The Game Theorists Made
Paul Erickson, The World The Game Theorists Made (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2015) 390pp. $ 35.00 Pb, $105.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780226097176 In Robert Coover’s lamentably obscure 1968 novel, The Universal Baseball Association, J Henry Waugh, Prop., a socially-retiring accountant becomes increasingly absorbed into the private world of his fantasy baseball league. Each night after…
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Shuttleworth, Sally, The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science, and Medicine, 1840-1900
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Jon Adams
Sally Shuttleworth, The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science, and Medicine, 1840-1900 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), xii+497 pp. £35.00 hb. ISBN 978-0199582563. Sally Shuttleworth needs no introduction to BSLS members; indeed, delegates at the 2007 conference in Birmingham heard some of the material from this new book in her plenary address…
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Hagen, Margareth and Randi Koppen and Margery Vibe Skagen (eds), The Art of Discovery: Encounters in Literature and Science
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Jon Adams
Margareth Hagen, Randi Koppen and Margery Vibe Skagen (eds), The Art of Discovery: Encounters in Literature and Science (Aarhus and Copenhagen: Aarhus University Press, 2010), 275pp. € 33.95 pb. ISBN 978-87-7934-5010. A wealth of metaphors has been produced to describe the complex relationship between literature and science, each bearing its own set of implications. C.…
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Coleman, Philip (ed.), On Literature and Science
Philip Coleman (ed.), On Literature and Science: Essays, Reflections, Provocations (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), 270pp. £50hb. ISBN: 978-1846820717. Reading a medievalist on the relations between The Canterbury Tales and sci-fi is not an enticing prospect: “Chaucer, technology and the rise of science fiction in English” sounds like the most egregious piece of shoe-horning since Cinderella’s…
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Swirski, Peter, Of Literature and Knowledge
Peter Swirski, Of Literature and Knowledge: Explorations in Narrative Thought Experiments, Evolution, and Game Theory (London: Routledge, 2007), 196pp. £60 hb/£18.99 pb. ISBN 978-0415420594. Fictions – novels in particular – embed so many incidental details in the process of telling their stories that they could act as repositories of information about particular places and times.…
