TY  - CHAP
A1  - Schmitz-Emans, Monika
A2  - Schmitz-Emans, Monika
T1  - Science in Wonderland
T2  - Literature and science = Literatur und Wissenschaft / hrsg. von Monika Schmitz-Emans, Saarbrücker Beiträge zur vergleichenden Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft ; Bd. 41
N2  - Lewis Carroll's Alice, who first explores Wonderland (1865) and later on the country behind the Looking-Glass (1872), belongs to the most well-known characters in world literature. [...] The scientific reception of Carroll's stories – concerning physics as well as the humanities – has taken place on different levels. On the one hand, […] various Carrollian ideas and episodes obviously correspond to topics, subjects and models that are treated in the contexts of scientific discourses. Therefore, they can be quoted or alluded to in order to represent theories and questions […] – as […] physical models of the world […]or theoretical models of language and communication. […] On a more abstract level of observation, Carroll's stories have been used in order to explain and to discuss the pre-conditions, the procedures, and the limits . of scientific modeling as such. Above all, they make it possible to narrate on the problem of defining and observing an 'object' of research. […] According to Deleuze, the paradox structures of the world that Alice experiences give an idea of all meaning being groundless and all logic being subverted by the illogical. Finally, besides all affinities of Alice's adventures to scientific attempts to explain the world, the absolutely incomprehensible is present in Carroll's books as well. Especially the self proves to be something profoundly incomprehensible […].
KW  - Carroll, Lewis / Through the looking-glass and what Alice found there
KW  - Carroll, Lewis / Alice's adventures in wonderland
KW  - Naturwissenschaften
Y1  - 2008
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/24765
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-247658
SN  - 978-3-8260-3719-1
SN  - 3-8260-3719-7
SP  - 159
EP  - 176
PB  - Königshausen und Neumann
CY  - Würzburg
ER  -