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Subjects of substance : recent American literature and the materiality of mind /

Subjects of Substance traces the ways in which materialist conceptions of selfhood inspire and shape recent U.S. literature. While disciplines like neuroscience and evolutionary biology transform the human self from an immaterial essence into a material construct, authors likewise develop conception...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Henneberg, Julian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag, [2020]
Colección:American studies (Transcript (Firm)) ; Bd. 28.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction: Materialist Minds
  • 2. Key Terms and Concepts
  • 3. "My wayward brain": Cerebral Subjectivity and Narrative Identity in the Neuro-Memoir
  • 4. "Just some kind of nerve impulse in the brain": Substances and Subjects in the Novels of Don DeLillo
  • 5. Between Agency and Automatism: David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
  • 6. Neural Narrative: Richard Powers's Galatea 2.2 and The Echo Maker
  • Conclusion
  • Works Cited