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• W254181509 abstract "Abstract Leading from C.P.Snow's comments in his Rede Lecture of 1959, regarding self-impoverishment on the part of both scientists and intellectuals,this essay begins by examining texts by two of the writers in question: Waste Land, by T.S.Eliot and Women in Love, by D.H.Lawrence. Noting, as Snow does, the pessimistic tone regarding the individual human condition informing these works, as well as what Snow terms their Luddite attitude regarding industry, technology, and scientific advance in general, the essay will highlight the authors' dismissal of the possiblities for concrete, collective economic betterment presented by the natural and physical sciences in the very period, the mid-Twentieth Century, when Eliot, Lawrence, Franz Kafka, and other pessimists held center stage in British, European, and American classrooms. The essay will then shift its attention to the Twentieth Century titan, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, one of whose massive novels, Cancer Ward, emerges from the writer's comprehensive familiarity with the medical sciences. The author of The First Circle,The Gulag Archipelago, and Cancer Ward presupposes an educated readership conversant with primary facts and issues in both the humanities and the sciences. Therefore, while neither experimental in style nor blindly regarding a utopian future through science, the novel suggests another possibility: an ethically aware, active populace, educated in both the arts and the sciences, capable of using its knowledge for both individual well-being in the spiritual sense and collective well-being in the socioeconomic sense. The essay will focus on the dual function of medical science in Cancer Ward, as metaphor and as bureaucratic fact in the now defunct soviet Union. The paper will conclude with a retrospective look at the teaching of the modern canon in American classrooms of the 1960's and beyond, and a suggestion for revision of that pedagogic approach, which marginalizes scientific elements in those texts. 1. Introduction C.P.Snow's Rede Lecture of 1959 pinpoints and defines what he perceives as a disturbing lack of communication between the two primary cultures, the scientists, in particular the physical scientists, and the non-scientists, represented in the lecture primarily by a group he names the literary intellectuals. At no point in his discourse, incidentally, does he specify the poets and fiction writers who fall into this category. Nevertheless, it isn't difficult for a specialist, weaned in the mid-Twentieth Century university setting, to guess at their identities: T.S Eliot, D.H.Lawrence, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, among others, spring to mind immediately, as does the pessimistic, even fatalistic tone and tenor that links together so much of their otherwise quite distinctive output. The rift between these two groups, who share nonetheless exceptional intelligence, secure socioeconomic station, advanced education, and caucasian ethnicity, rests, Snow believes, on misinterpretation on the part of each regarding the other's outlook on and hopes for the improvement of the human condition. We can surely assume that Snow is referring to the human condition as affected in the Nineteenth Century by the Industrial Revolution, whose undeniably positive impact he examines closely; clearly, as well, he is taking into consideration, although they receive little mention, two catastrophic world wars, in which military combat was rendered all the more horrific by the technology and the very machinery emerging from the industrial establishment. The intellectuals, writing and being read mainly (and roughly) in the period 1914-1960, see their scientific contemporaries, in snow's view, as shallowly optimistic (Snow 5), in their expectation that they can solve fundamental problems in human existence in material concrete ways. On the other side, Snow notes, the scientists judge with severity the group of poets, fiction writers, and dramatists for their apparent lack of foresight, their intense introspection, which suggests indifference to the larger human community, and their indefensible pessimism regarding the potential for improvement of the human lot: . …" @default.
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• W254181509 title "The Two Cultures: The Literary Moderns Revisited" @default.
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