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French: 1789-1900

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Functions of Science in French Fiction
http://JV.Gilead.org.il/evans/function.html
“Throughout most the 19th and 20th centuries, and perhaps more acutely in France thanelsewhere, ‘scientific’ and literary matters have been perceived as diametrical opposites,mutually exclusive modes of thought requiring vastly different discursive vehicles for theirexpression. As Michel Foucault has pointed out, for example, the ideal of a ‘pure’ scientific discourse grew to be an important épistémè of the 19th century–an historical period that witnessed dramatic changes in the basic premises of scientific methodology. The desire for a cognitively ‘objective’ outlook, deemed to be a prerequisite to valid scientific inquiry, became increasingly extended into the realm of language itself, substantially altering what had traditionally been more ÒholisticÓ relationship between language and knowledge.”
Contains: Historical Context, Content Analysis
Author: Arthur B. Evans
From: Studies in the Literary Imagination Vol. 22 no. 1; p. 79-100; Spring 1989
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Authors in French: 1789-1900 literature:

Honore de Balzac (1799 – 1850)Charles Baudelaire (1821 – 1867)
Francois-Rene Chateaubriand (1768 – 1848)Benjamin Constant (1767 – 1830)
Alexandre Dumas (1802 – 1870)Gustave Flaubert (1821 – 1880)
Theophile Gautier (1811 – 1872)RenŽ Ghil (1862 – 1925)
Victor Hugo (1802 – 1885)Jules Janin (1804 – 1874)
Pierre Loti (1850 – 1923)StŽphane MallarmŽ (1842 – 1898)
Guy de Maupassant (1850 – 1893)Prosper Merimee (1803 – 1870)
Alfred de Musset (1810 – 1857)Gerard de Nerval (1808 – 1855)
George Sand (1804 – 1876)Etienne Pivert de Senancour (1770 – 1846)
Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) Stael (1766 – 1817)Jules Verne (1828 – 1905)


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