In some ways, Dr. Wai Chee Dimok’s lecture reminded me of a previous talk in the series, Dr. Hensley’s lecture on the parallels between the transitionary periods of the beginning and end of the Industrial Revolution, and therefore climate change, through the lens of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Both talks made the extremely interesting connection between the literary and scientific worlds. I was fascinated by this lecture’s comparison between Bishop and Blake, and how selected works by those two poets could represent a tension between different frames of mind concerning knowledge, much in the same way Hensley compared Carroll’s work to modern attitudes. Continue reading “Science or Humanities? A False Dichotomy”