TY  - BOOK
ED  - Klinkert, Thomas
ED  - Séginger, Gisèle
AB  - By the metaphorical power and the modelling power which they take, biological knowledge and its representations arouse in the XIXth century the fascination of the writers. They find there the source of new poetry, of an imaginary going beyond the positivist logic, but also of new textual forms, a poetics, even esthetics allowing to redefine the idea of ​​the "beautiful". This volume studies the impact of biological knowledge on literary creation in the 19th century, with three objectives: (1) studying the dissemination and reception of biological knowledge by 19th-century writers, paying particular attention to the work major foreigners in the matter; (2) analyze the use and functions of biological knowledge in literary texts, their transformations in terms of content, writing and poetics, which also presupposes the identification of the ideological issues of this knowledge; (3) think about the relationships or the discrepancies between the history of science and the history of literature, which sometimes reflects current debates, sometimes, on the contrary, is inscribed in older knowledge.
DO  - 10.1515/9783110665963
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1006927
KW  - Littérature française et savoirs biologiques au XIXe siècle
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/e29ea88e-30c5-446a-b4ae-9e60c168ab7a/1006927.pdf
LA  - French
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23227
PB  - De Gruyter
PP  - Berlin/Boston
PY  - 2020
SN  - 9783110665963;9783110665826
TI  - Littérature française et savoirs biologiques au XIXe sièclenull
ER  - 
