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 -