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Understanding Scientific Prose Edited by Jack Selzer "Fascinating . . . I learned a great deal from these approaches, and had enormous fun."—Stephen Jay Gould 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. Applying methods inspired by Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Ferdinand de Saussure, and others, the contributors employ a range of interpretive strategies. Stephen Jay Gould adds his own comments, and the full text of the essay "Spandrels" is reproduced as an appendix. Applying methods inspired by Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Ferdinand de Saussure, and others, the contributors employ a range of interpretive strategies. Stephen Jay Gould adds his own comments, and the full text of "Spandrels" is reproduced as an appendix. Jack Selzer is professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Kenneth Burke in Greenwich Village, published by the University of Wisconsin Press, and is currently working on a sequel. For more information contact our publicity manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu

Back in print July 1993 LC: 93-021870 QH 406 pp. 6 x 9 2 halftones, 1 line ISBN-13: 978-0-299-13904-9 Paper $29.95 s Add titles to your shopping cart by clicking on the "Add this book to cart" link above. You can submit your order electronically, paying for it with your credit card. Click here for a further explanation of the shopping cart feature Never ordered from us before? Read this first.

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