The novel arrives at a moment when American readers are fascinated by novels that flirt with autobiography and challenge distinctions between fact and fiction — recent years have seen such books from Ben Lerner, Rachel Cusk, Jenny Offill, and Teju Cole (not to mention Karl Ove Knausgaard and Elena Ferrante).
Now Serono, like Amgen and Genentech, its bigger and better-known American brethren, is challenging this distinction.
Scutaro will probably not challenge that distinction, although he has played second base, shortstop and third base and one game in the outfield this season.
Scientific developments during the nineteenth century challenged the distinction between extensive and intensive magnitudes.
Some more recent theories have wanted to challenge this distinction, and to regard emotional feelings as themselves forms of thought, as themselves having an intellectual content.
With its broken form and literary style, Novalis's return to the fragment has been taken to challenge the distinction between art and critical thinking that was entirely central to Kant and Fichte.
In classic Tiravanijan style, the exhibition challenges the distinction between life and art, public and private, all while perverting the etiquette of a traditional art viewing for a playful alternative. .
I would extend the argument to many occupations dealing with food, which challenge the distinction between theoretical and practical knowledge and introduce innovative ways to relate to the world and to society.
However, several examples have recently challenged this distinction.
These findings challenge the distinction between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and suggest that more attention should be given to the relationship between the functional psychoses and neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism.
