Flaubert, Zola, and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge

Flaubert, Zola, and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9781137297549
ISBN-13 : 1137297549
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Flaubert, Zola, and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge by : L. Duffy

This book is about how France's two major documentary authors of the nineteenth century – Gustave Flaubert and Émile Zola – incorporate medical knowledge about the body into their works, and in so doing exploit its metaphorical potential of the body to engage in critical reflection about the accumulation and reconfiguration of knowledge.

Flaubert, Zola, and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge

Flaubert, Zola, and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 275
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ISBN-10 : 9781137297549
ISBN-13 : 1137297549
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Flaubert, Zola, and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge by : L. Duffy

This book is about how France's two major documentary authors of the nineteenth century – Gustave Flaubert and Émile Zola – incorporate medical knowledge about the body into their works, and in so doing exploit its metaphorical potential of the body to engage in critical reflection about the accumulation and reconfiguration of knowledge.

Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture

Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 283
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ISBN-10 : 9783030018573
ISBN-13 : 3030018571
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture by : Manon Mathias

This book considers the historical and cultural origins of the gut-brain relationship now evidenced in numerous scientific research fields. Bringing together eleven scholars with wide interdisciplinary expertise, the volume examines literal and metaphorical digestion in different spheres of nineteenth-century life. Digestive health is examined in three sections in relation to science, politics and literature during the period, focusing on Northern America, Europe and Australia. Using diverse methodologies, the essays demonstrate that the long nineteenth century was an important moment in the Western understanding and perception of the gastroenterological system and its relation to the mind in the sense of cognition, mental wellbeing, and the emotions. This collection explores how medical breakthroughs are often historically preceded by intuitive models imagined throughout a range of cultural productions.

Doctor Pascal

Doctor Pascal
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9780191063206
ISBN-13 : 0191063207
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Doctor Pascal by : Émile Zola

'There's something of everything there, the best and the worst, the vulgar and the sublime, flowers, muck, tears, laughter, the river of life itself' Pascal Rougon has served as a doctor in the rural French town of Plassans for thirty years. He lives a quiet life with his faithful servant Martine and young niece Clotilde. Pascal is a man of science, striving to find the ultimate cure for all diseases. This puts him at odds with his niece, who is horrified by his denial of religious faith. Clotilde also distrusts Pascal's lifelong ambition to create a family tree on scientific principles, based upon his theories of heredity. Tensions in the household are fuelled by Pascal's scheming mother, Félicité, as the final episode in the great Rougon-Macquart saga plays out. Dr Pascal is the passionate conclusion to Zola's twenty-novel sequence, and the most eloquent expression of the ideas on heredity and human progress that have underpinned it. Human relations are at its heart, as Pascal and Clotilde are bound ever closer by ties of family and love.

Reappearing Characters in Nineteenth-Century French Literature

Reappearing Characters in Nineteenth-Century French Literature
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 291
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ISBN-10 : 9783319692906
ISBN-13 : 3319692909
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Reappearing Characters in Nineteenth-Century French Literature by : Sotirios Paraschas

This book examines the phenomenon of the reappearance of characters in nineteenth-century French fiction. It approaches this from a hitherto unexplored perspective: that of the twin history of the aesthetic notion of originality and the legal notion of literary property. While the reappearance of characters in the works of canonical authors such as Honoré de Balzac and Émile Zola is usually seen as a device which transforms the individual works of an author into a coherent whole, this book argues that the unprecedented systematisation of the reappearance of characters in the nineteenth century has to be seen within a wider cultural, economic, and legal context. While fictional characters are seen as original creations by their authors, from a legal point of view they are considered to be ‘ideas’ which are not protected and can be appropriated by anyone. By co-examining the reappearance of characters in the work of canonical authors and their reappearances in unauthorised appropriations, such as stage adaptations and sequels, this book discusses a series of issues that have shaped our understanding of authorship, originality, and property.

Medicine and Maladies

Medicine and Maladies
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 285
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ISBN-10 : 9789004368019
ISBN-13 : 9004368019
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Medicine and Maladies by :

Medicine and Maladies explores the aesthetic, medical, and socio-political contexts that informed depictions of illness and disease in nineteenth-century France. Eleven essays by specialists in nineteenth-century French literature and visual culture probe the acts of writing, reading, and viewing corporeal afflictions across the works of medical practitioners, surgeons, pharmacists, novelists, and artists. Tracing scientific discourse in literary narratives and signalling references to fiction in medical texts, the contributions to this interdisciplinary volume invite us to rethink the relationship between the humanities and the medical sciences.

Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine

Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 9781040022184
ISBN-13 : 1040022189
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine by : Manon Mathias

Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine offers a new way of conceptualizing food in literature: not as social or cultural symbol but as an agent within a network of relationships between body and mind and between humans and environment. By analysing gastrointestinal health in medical, literary, and philosophical texts, this volume rethinks the intersections between literature and health in the nineteenth century and triggers new debates about France’s relationship with food. Of relevance to scholars of literature and to historians and sociologists of science, food, and medicine, it will provide ideal reading for students of French Literature and Culture, History, Cultural Studies, and History of Science and Medicine, Literature and Science, Food Studies, and the Medical Humanities. Readers will be introduced to new ways of approaching digestion in this period and will gain appreciation of the powerful resources offered by nineteenth-century French writing in understanding the nature of connections between gut, mind, and environment and the impact of these connections on our status as human beings.

Writing Postcommunism

Writing Postcommunism
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 235
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ISBN-10 : 9781137330086
ISBN-13 : 1137330082
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Writing Postcommunism by : D. Williams

Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight.

Russian Montparnasse

Russian Montparnasse
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 269
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ISBN-10 : 9781137508010
ISBN-13 : 1137508019
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Russian Montparnasse by : Maria Rubins

This book reassesses the role of Russian Montparnasse writers in the articulation of transnational modernism generated by exile. Examining their production from a comparative perspective, it demonstrates that their response to urban modernity transcended the Russian master narrative and resonated with broader aesthetic trends in interwar Europe.