Understanding scientific prose / edited by Jack Selzer.

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [1993], ©1993.

xv, 388 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-376) and index.

Intertextual self-fashioning : Gould and Lewontin's representations of the literature / Charles Bazerman -- "Spandrels," narration, and modernity / Susan Wells -- Cultural studies and critical science / Carl G. Herndl -- Science, gender, and "The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm" / Mary Rosner and Georgia Rhoades -- Reading Darwin, reading nature; or, on the ethos of historical science / Carolyn R. Miller and S. Michael Halloran -- Constructing scientific knowledge in Gould and Lewontin's "The spandrels of San Marco" / Dorothy A. Winsor -- Angels in the architecture : a Burkean inventional perspective on "Spandrels" / John Lyne -- Tactics of evaluation in Gould and Lewontin's "The spandrels of San Marco" / Jeanne Fahnestock -- The reader in the text of "The spandrels of San Marco" / Gay Gragson and Jack Selzer.

A study in rhetorical reading : how evolutionists read "The spandrels of San Marco" / Davida Charney -- Deconstructing "The spandrels of San Marco" / Debra Journet -- Making enemies : how Gould and Lewontin criticize / Greg Myers -- Provocative architecture : a structural analysis of Gould and Lewontin's "The spandrels of San Marco" / Barbara Couture -- Fulfilling the spandrels of world and mind / Stephen Jay Gould -- Appendix : The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm : a critique of the adaptationist programme / S.J. Gould and R.C. Lewontin.