The author notes the growing use of scientific concepts in contemporary experimental novels, as well as the development of structuralism, a method of literary criticism drawing heavily upon the sciences. He suggests that these are valuable trends toward strengthening the bridge between the sciences and the humanities. (Author/SJL)

Three views of literature as a bond between science and English are presented. First, the view that the sciences are contributing to the restructuring of literary forms is illustrated by quotations from Nigel Dennis, Northrop Frye, Stephen Spender, Ken Kesey, and Claude Mauriac. Second, historical precedence for viewing literature as rapprochement…