The elusive brain : literary experiments in the age of neuroscience /

Featuring a foreword by renowned neuroscientist Joseph E. LeDoux, 'The Elusive Brain' is an illuminating, comprehensive survey of contemporary literature's engagement with neuroscience. This work explores how literature interacts with neuroscience to provide a better understanding of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tougaw, Jason Daniel (Autor)
Otros Autores: LeDoux, Joseph E. (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Rhetoric and psychology.
Writing > Psychological aspects.
Literature, Experimental > History and criticism.
Neurosciences and the humanities.
Rhétorique et psychologie.
Écriture > Aspect psychologique.
Littérature expérimentale > Histoire et critique.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Neurosciences and the humanities
Literature, Experimental
Rhetoric and psychology
Writing > Psychological aspects
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: You are your brain, you are not your brain
  • 1 Before neuromania
  • Interlude: neurodiversity in the age of the brain atlas
  • 2 Brain memoirs
  • 3 Three autistic autobiographers
  • Interlude: if you've met one autistic reviewer ...
  • 4 Narrating neurological difference
  • 5 Touching brains in the neuronovel
  • Interlude: interview with Maud Casey
  • 6 Neurocomics and neuroimaging
  • Epilogue: reading organisms in the age of neuroscience.

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