Balzac et les géographes : reconversion d’un discours scientifique
The paper is an attempt at showing how the mentions and quotations of contemporary geographic dis-courses inserted in the Balzacian texts and paratexts are there to outline the features of a new novelistic æsthetic. We will start from the following observation: the Balzacian novel and its encycloped...
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| description | The paper is an attempt at showing how the mentions and quotations of contemporary geographic dis-courses inserted in the Balzacian texts and paratexts are there to outline the features of a new novelistic æsthetic. We will start from the following observation: the Balzacian novel and its encyclopedic ambi-tion are contemporaneous with the first attempts of some geographers to found a unified science from a diversified set of knowledges and practices. Therefore, modern geography may appear as an adversary of Balzac’s own ambition of totalization and we will show that geographic discourse, rather than being a model for him as other scientific discourses are, is distorted in his novels, deprived of its epistemological value and reduced to a science without knowledge. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ba0d8f7a13af4afe95de10278e1edef32024-02-06T19:25:25ZcatAdam Mickiewicz UniversityStudia Romanica Posnaniensia0137-24752084-41582023-03-01501719https://doi.org/10.14746/strop.2023.50.1.1Balzac et les géographes : reconversion d’un discours scientifiqueKillian Huaulmé0https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0704-4543Sorbonne UniversitéThe paper is an attempt at showing how the mentions and quotations of contemporary geographic dis-courses inserted in the Balzacian texts and paratexts are there to outline the features of a new novelistic æsthetic. We will start from the following observation: the Balzacian novel and its encyclopedic ambi-tion are contemporaneous with the first attempts of some geographers to found a unified science from a diversified set of knowledges and practices. Therefore, modern geography may appear as an adversary of Balzac’s own ambition of totalization and we will show that geographic discourse, rather than being a model for him as other scientific discourses are, is distorted in his novels, deprived of its epistemological value and reduced to a science without knowledge.https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/srp/article/view/38056/32608honore de balzacliterature and geographyalexandre von humboldtconrad malte-brun |
| spellingShingle | Killian Huaulmé Balzac et les géographes : reconversion d’un discours scientifique Studia Romanica Posnaniensia honore de balzac literature and geography alexandre von humboldt conrad malte-brun |
| title | Balzac et les géographes : reconversion d’un discours scientifique |
| title_full | Balzac et les géographes : reconversion d’un discours scientifique |
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| title_short | Balzac et les géographes : reconversion d’un discours scientifique |
| title_sort | balzac et les geographes reconversion d un discours scientifique |
| topic | honore de balzac literature and geography alexandre von humboldt conrad malte-brun |
| url | https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/srp/article/view/38056/32608 |
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