Fiction’s strategies of evidence and their cultural significance: The scientist as writer

• Main Author: Susanne Frank
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: German; English; Spanish; French; Italian; Russian
• Published: Università degli Studi di Milano 2014
• Subjects: 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; Arctic; Verne; Arctic Island; Obruchev
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.13130/2037-2426/4101; https://doaj.org/article/637766de7f7e4d86bf8dec3cb3780a8c

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...