Flaubert, Zola, and the Incorporation of disciplinary knowledge
By: Larry Duffy
Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature; Centre for modern European literature
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781137297532
Subjects: French literature; History and criticism; Knowledge, Theory of, in literature; Human body in literature; Criticism and interpretation; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French
Description: "Flaubert, Zola and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge transcends traditional author studies to focus on institutional dimensions of professional practices and knowledge concerning the body in nineteenth-century France, and on their articulation by literary and other texts. It examines how institutional developments in medicine and pharmacy are 'incorporated' within literary texts, arguing that such incorporation reflects acute concern with the body, and with knowledge considered metaphorically as body. In its innovative focus on incorporation as metaphor, the book explores theoretical relationships between body and text, exploiting the rich metaphorical potential of the institutional, professional body, constituted by discourse and associated with bodies of disciplinary knowledge. The institutional body 'incorporates' itself; the literary text 'incorporates' knowledge precisely about the body's incorporation of substances and practices. Offering cultural history of certain medical, pharmaceutical and scientific discourses, this book problematizes the boundaries between literary and other forms of discourse, themselves analogical to boundaries between different fields of disciplinary knowledge"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-251) and index.