Between a Cabinet of Curiosities, a Library and a Museum: Cases of Encyclopedism in Gustave Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pecuchet Cover Image

Między gabinetem osobliwości, biblioteką a muzeum. Przypadki encyklopedyzmu w Gustave’a Flauberta „Bouvardzie i Pécuchecie”
Between a Cabinet of Curiosities, a Library and a Museum: Cases of Encyclopedism in Gustave Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pecuchet

Author(s): Łukasz Wróbel
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: Gustave Flaubert; encyclopedism; cabinet of curiosities;garden;library; museum

Summary/Abstract: Encyclopedic ideas are implemented in the forms of a summa, encyclopedia, dictionary, as well as a novel. In Gustave Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pecuchetalso their spatial modalities have been subjected to fabularisation (a cabinet of curiosities, a library, a museum). The aim of the article isto interpret these spatialisations in the context of the thematic order of chapters in the discussed work and selected elements of the presented world, as well as to evaluate the diagnoses made by Flaubert in relation to systematic knowledge and the very idea of encyclopedism in the period of modernity.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 59-78
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish
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