Suspense and the Scientific Method
Special | 47m 52sVideo has Closed Captions
Caroline Levine traces using suspense in writing novels to science writing.
Caroline Levine, Professor, Department of English, UW-Madison, argues that novelists picked up the nineteenth century call for scientists to practice “suspending judgment,” or to not rush to conclusions, in their experiments and made it a model for their own storytelling, democratizing the scientific method while attracting an increasing circle of readers.
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Suspense and the Scientific Method
Special | 47m 52sVideo has Closed Captions
Caroline Levine, Professor, Department of English, UW-Madison, argues that novelists picked up the nineteenth century call for scientists to practice “suspending judgment,” or to not rush to conclusions, in their experiments and made it a model for their own storytelling, democratizing the scientific method while attracting an increasing circle of readers.
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