Lafayette College Course Surveys Science and Literature

The trouble with literature and science is that most people think they have nothing in common. The former is imaginative, subjective, and mushy; the latter hard-minded, objective, and dry.

Except when Laura Dassow Walls, an associate professor of English at Lafayette College, in Easton, Pa., talks about them. Then literature and science seem remarkably alike. And there's a good reason for that, Ms. Walls insists: They are.

The problem, Ms. Walls adds,

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