Explorations of consciousness in contemporary fiction

Explorations of consciousness in contemporary fiction / edited by Grzegorz Maziarczyk, Joanna Klara Teske.

Explorations of Consciousness in Contemporary Fiction is a collection of essays examining the potential of the contemporary English-language novel to represent and inquire into various aspects of the human mind. Grounded in contemporary literary theory as well as consciousness studies, the essays co...

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Other Authors: Maziarczyk, Grzegorz (Editor), Teske, Joanna Klara (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2017]
Series:Consciousness, literature & the arts ; 51.
Subjects:
Fiction > Psychological aspects.
Consciousness in literature.
Postmodernism (Literature) > English-speaking countries.
Narration (Rhetoric) > Psychological aspects.
Psychology in literature.
Cognition in literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Cognition in literature
Consciousness in literature
Fiction > Psychological aspects
Narration (Rhetoric) > Psychological aspects
Postmodernism (Literature)
Psychology in literature
English-speaking countries
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Table of Contents:
  • Explorations of Consciousness in Contemporary Fiction; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Contemporary Fiction and Consciousness; 1 "Unquantifiable factors": The Concept of Qualia in Two Novels about Artificial Intelligence by Richard Powers and David Gerrold; 2 Creations of the Posthuman Mind: Consciousness in Peter Watts's Blindsight; 3 "Men are Noisy creachers": Dystopian Consciousness in Patrick Ness's Chaos Walking Trilogy; 4 Autistic Consciousness Represented: Fictional Mental Functioning of a Different Kind.
  • 5 Embodied Consciousness: Autism, Life Writing and the Limits of the Cognitive Paradigm6 Reality of the Unreal: The Use of Contradiction in Postmodern Fiction Exploring the Creative Potential of the Human Mind; 7 Art, Madness and the Divine in Russell Hoban's The Medusa Frequency; 8 Narrated Madness: Extreme States of Consciousness in A.S. Byatt's Frederica Quartet; 9 Richard Powers's "Hybrid Bastard": The Echo Maker and "The Postpsychiatric Novel"; 10 Bullet in the Head: Jess Walter's The Zero and the Conscious Conscience of 9/11.
  • 11 The Embodied Mind: Janice Galloway's The Trick is to Keep Breathing12 Addressing the Self in Keri Hulme's the bone people; 13 Multimodality, Interactivity and Embodiment: Representation of Consciousness in Digital Narratives; 14 The Mind of Then We Came to the End: A Transmental Approach to Contemporary Metafiction; Index.

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