Fiction’s strategies of evidence and their cultural significance: The scientist as writer
This article analyses the popular novel Sannikov’s land (published in 1926) by the famous Russian and Soviet geologist Vladimir A. Obruchev (1863–1956). It asks how scientific discourse on the one hand, and literary, fictional discourse on the other interact in this text that tells the story of the...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:637766de7f7e4d86bf8dec3cb3780a8c 2023-05-15T14:50:27+02:00 Fiction’s strategies of evidence and their cultural significance: The scientist as writer Susanne Frank 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.13130/2037-2426/4101 https://doaj.org/article/637766de7f7e4d86bf8dec3cb3780a8c DE EN ES FR IT RU ger eng spa fre ita rus Università degli Studi di Milano https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema/article/view/4101 https://doaj.org/toc/2037-2426 2037-2426 doi:10.13130/2037-2426/4101 https://doaj.org/article/637766de7f7e4d86bf8dec3cb3780a8c Enthymema, Vol 0, Iss 10, Pp 26-40 (2014) Narrativisation contextualisation and popularisation of scientific hypotheses by means of fiction evidentia as a narrative device geopoetics geopolitics Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar P101-410 Style. Composition. Rhetoric P301-301.5 Literature (General) PN1-6790 Oratory. Elocution etc PN4001-4355 article 2014 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.13130/2037-2426/4101 2022-12-31T12:39:16Z This article analyses the popular novel Sannikov’s land (published in 1926) by the famous Russian and Soviet geologist Vladimir A. Obruchev (1863–1956). It asks how scientific discourse on the one hand, and literary, fictional discourse on the other interact in this text that tells the story of the discovery of an Arctic island, which a Russian merchant had asserted to have seen, but the existence of which never could be affirmed. Basing his novel exclusively on well-founded scien- tific (geological as well as anthropological) hypotheses, Obruchev polemizes with a whole range of earlier texts from J. Verne to K. Hloucha. Unfolding the story of the Russian expedition, Obruchev pursues the aim (1) to deconstruct the utopian myth of a paradise on earth beyond the Arctic ice in its countless varieties; (2) to show that ancient myths—like the myth of the ex- istence of warm islands in the Arctic—are a form of protoscientific insight that should be taken seriously by modern science and transformed into scientific knowledge; and (3) to suggest that the Arctic islands—really existing, supposed to exist or be doomed—from a geological point of view belong to the Siberian mainland and therefore to Russian/Soviet territory. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Verne ENVELOPE(-67.550,-67.550,-67.750,-67.750) Arctic Island ENVELOPE(-74.766,-74.766,62.234,62.234) Obruchev ENVELOPE(154.200,154.200,-68.900,-68.900) |
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This article analyses the popular novel Sannikov’s land (published in 1926) by the famous Russian and Soviet geologist Vladimir A. Obruchev (1863–1956). It asks how scientific discourse on the one hand, and literary, fictional discourse on the other interact in this text that tells the story of the discovery of an Arctic island, which a Russian merchant had asserted to have seen, but the existence of which never could be affirmed. Basing his novel exclusively on well-founded scien- tific (geological as well as anthropological) hypotheses, Obruchev polemizes with a whole range of earlier texts from J. Verne to K. Hloucha. Unfolding the story of the Russian expedition, Obruchev pursues the aim (1) to deconstruct the utopian myth of a paradise on earth beyond the Arctic ice in its countless varieties; (2) to show that ancient myths—like the myth of the ex- istence of warm islands in the Arctic—are a form of protoscientific insight that should be taken seriously by modern science and transformed into scientific knowledge; and (3) to suggest that the Arctic islands—really existing, supposed to exist or be doomed—from a geological point of view belong to the Siberian mainland and therefore to Russian/Soviet territory. |
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Fiction’s strategies of evidence and their cultural significance: The scientist as writer |
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