Telling Lists: A Dynamic Study of the Nature and Function of Literary Lists. KU Leuven
This project is developed against the background of 'Literature and Knowledge Studies'. Its starting point is a two-fold observation: (1) modern science and the novel originated in the same period (2) the legitimation of the modern novel partly depended on its function as a carrier of (popularized scientific) knowledge. This interaction between fiction and science/ knowledge has typically been studied from a discursive point of view ...