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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Science and Confusion: Flaubert’s Temptation
- Ist Teil von
- Commemorating Trauma, 2006, p.86
- Ort / Verlag
- Fordham University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2006
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Flaubert speaks often in his letters of a desire to make criticism, literary style, and even politics “scientific.” Yet critics habitually assume that the meaning of Flaubert’s “science” lies elsewhere than in the practices of the natural sciences as he and his contemporaries would have known them. When Raymonde Debray-Genette writes, for example, “All that Flaubert truly takes from science is the idea of a probable generality,” she implicitly subsumes science to an aesthetic category, to a “documentaryverisimilitude” that justifies—or, better,authorizes—prior acts of the imagination (“Science,” 44).¹ Likewise, there has long been a tendency among Flaubert’s
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 0823226034, 9780823226030DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823226030.003.0005Titel-ID: cdi_oup_upso_upso_9780823226030_chapter_5
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Alethiology, Applied philosophy, Arts, Behavioral sciences, Biological sciences, Biology, Christianity, Cognitive psychology, Communes, Communications, Communities, Death, Desire, Developmental biology, Dialectic, Discourse, Emotion, Emotional states, Epistemology, Flaubert, Flaubertian science, Historical methodology, Historiography, History, Human societies, Jean-Paul Sartre, Life cycle, Literary criticism, Literary studies, Literary Studies (19th Century), Literary Studies (European), Literary Theory and Cultural Studies, Literature, Natural history, Paris Commune, Philosophy, Philosophy of science, Prussians, Psychology, Religion, Rhetoric, Sadness, Social groups, Social sciences, Sociology, Spiritual belief systems, Superseded scientific theories, Temptation, Third Republic, Truth, Vitalism