Litteraturens skabende viden: J.P. Jacobsens Niels Lyhne og røntgenteknologiens emergens
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Litteraturens skabende viden : J.P. Jacobsens Niels Lyhne og røntgenteknologiens emergens . / Jørgensen, Jens Lohfert.
In: Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning, Vol. 2011, No. 3, 2011, p. 226-237.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Litteraturens skabende viden
T2 - J.P. Jacobsens Niels Lyhne og røntgenteknologiens emergens
AU - Jørgensen, Jens Lohfert
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The article explores the heuristic meeting between literature and medicine as articulated in the specific case of Jacobsen’s novel Niels Lyhne (1880) and tuberculosis. In the opening pasages, two methodological approaches are presented: A symptomatological, developed by Deleuze, and a cultural phenomenological, developed by Connor. Both tuberculosis in the 19th century, and the work of Jacobsen in a consumptive context, are introduced; and attention is then focused on a narrative sequence in the novel, in which spots – that eat their way into the characters’ relations to each other – are explosively disseminated. Medical science’s discovery of these spots is connected to the emergence of the x-ray, in 1895. By contextualising the novel in contemporary cultural attempts to visualise the hitherto invisible, the article argues that elements in the passage can indeed be read as references to the x-ray avant la letter. In conclusion, the consequences of this surprising assertion are drawn.
AB - The article explores the heuristic meeting between literature and medicine as articulated in the specific case of Jacobsen’s novel Niels Lyhne (1880) and tuberculosis. In the opening pasages, two methodological approaches are presented: A symptomatological, developed by Deleuze, and a cultural phenomenological, developed by Connor. Both tuberculosis in the 19th century, and the work of Jacobsen in a consumptive context, are introduced; and attention is then focused on a narrative sequence in the novel, in which spots – that eat their way into the characters’ relations to each other – are explosively disseminated. Medical science’s discovery of these spots is connected to the emergence of the x-ray, in 1895. By contextualising the novel in contemporary cultural attempts to visualise the hitherto invisible, the article argues that elements in the passage can indeed be read as references to the x-ray avant la letter. In conclusion, the consequences of this surprising assertion are drawn.
KW - Det Humanistiske Fakultet
KW - J. P. Jacobsen
KW - Litteraturvidenskab
KW - Litteratur og Medicin
KW - Tuberkulose
KW - Røntgenteknologi
KW - Jens Peter Jacobsen
KW - Literature Criticism
KW - Literature and Medicine
KW - Tuberculosis
KW - X-ray technology
M3 - Tidsskriftartikel
VL - 2011
SP - 226
EP - 237
JO - Edda
JF - Edda
SN - 0013-0818
IS - 3
ER -
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