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Nosographie et poétique du descriptif L'optique clinique

  • Publication type: Article from a collective work
  • Collective work: Poétiques du descriptif dans le roman français du xixe siècle
  • Author: Marquer (Bertrand)
  • Abstract: This article interrogates the link between the poetics of description and nosography, and emphasises the optic brought out by the “birth of the clinic” (Foucault). Perceived as a way of making speak that which is hidden, the clinical optic enables the articulation of description in the narrative and makes nosography a key moment of the account. It can legitimise a moral or a reverie about the body, and even give birth to a pathology of the marvellous in which clinical description validates the extraordinary.
  • Pages: 81 to 95
  • Collection: Encounters, n° 145
  • Series: Nineteenth century studies, n° 30
  • CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
  • EAN: 9782812450853
  • ISBN: 978-2-8124-5085-3
  • ISSN: 2261-1851
  • DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-5085-3.p.0081
  • Publisher: Classiques Garnier
  • Online publication: 02-25-2016
  • Language: French