Writing Styles in Discipline and Punish

This Study Guide consists of approximately 59 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Discipline and Punish.

Writing Styles in Discipline and Punish

This Study Guide consists of approximately 59 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Discipline and Punish.
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Structure

Foucault’s Discipline and Punish is a nonfiction study of the historical processes that contributed to the development of the prison in the West. It is divided into four parts, each corresponding to a set period in the history of punishment. Each part is further divided into two or three subsections, based on a theme that typifies that particular part.

What defines the structure of Discipline and Punish is its classification as a genealogy. Unlike a typical historical book, which might try to trace a specific domain of history in its entirety, a genealogical study is an investigative method that tries to unearth the origins of the circumstances that makeup the present. As a result of this interpretative process, the structure of Foucault’s study is not strictly chronological. Instead, we see that Foucault often begins each subsection with a dominant image that dictates a sense of...

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