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Understanding Scientific Prose (Paperback)
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Understanding Scientific Prose (Paperback)
Series: Rhetoric of the Human Sciences
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Examining science as a rhetorical enterprise, this book seizes upon
one scientific essay--"The Spandrels of San Marco and the
Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist
Programme"--and probes it from many angles. Written by prominent
evolutionary theorists Stephen Jay Gould and Richard C. Lewontin
and first published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of
London in 1979, the "Spandrels" article is both serious science and
vivid prose.
The essays here do not comment on the scientific merit of Gould
and Lewontin's essay, but rather use it as an example to
demonstrate and test new analytical approaches to scientific
rhetoric. Applying methods inspired by Louis Althusser, Michel
Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Ferdinand de Saussure, and others, the
contributors employ a range of interpretive strategies: from
postmodernist, intertextualist, feminist, structuralist,
historicist, sociolinguistic, dramatist, and deconstructionist
approaches to readings based on reader-response theory, protocol
analysis, the sociology of science, and classical rhetorical
theory.
Stephen Jay Gould submits his own retrospective in the final
chapter, remarking on the genesis and reception of "Spandrels" and
on the critical analyses of his work gathered here. The full text
of "The Spandrels of San Marco" is reproduced as an appendix.
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