Mindful aesthetics : literature and the science of mind

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Mindful aesthetics : literature and the science of mind

edited by Chris Danta and Helen Groth

Bloomsbury, 2014

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-231) and index

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内容説明

In the last few decades, literary critics have increasingly drawn insights from cognitive neuroscience to deepen and clarify our understanding of literary representations of mind. This cognitive turn has been equally generative and contentious. While cognitive literary studies has reinforced how central the concept of mind is to aesthetic practice from the classical period to the present, critics have questioned its literalism and selective borrowing of scientific authority. Mindful Aesthetics presents both these perspectives as part of a broader consideration of the ongoing and vital importance of shifting concepts of mind to both literary and critical practice. This collection contributes to the forging of a 'new interdisciplinarity,' to paraphrase Alan Richardson's recent preface to the Neural Sublime, that is more concerned with addressing how, rather than why, we should navigate the increasingly narrow gap between the humanities and the sciences.

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Introduction: Between Minds Chris Danta and Helen Groth Section One: Theoria Chapter 1. Psychology and Literature: Mindful Close Reading Brian Boyd Chapter 2. Vitalism and Theoria Claire Colebrook Chapter 3. Continental Drift: The Clash Between Literary Theory and Cognitive Literary Studies Paul Sheehan Chapter 4. Thinking with the World: Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello Anthony Uhlmann Section Two: Minds in History Chapter 5. 'The brain is a book which reads itself': Cultured Brains and Reductive Materialism from Diderot to J. J. C. Smart Charles T. Wolfe Chapter 6. Muted Literary Minds: James Sully, George Eliot and Psychologised Aesthetics in the Nineteenth Century Penelope Hone Chapter 7. The Mind as Palimpsest: Art, Dreaming and James Sully's Aesthetics of Latency Helen Groth Chapter 8. The Flame's Lover: The Modernist Mind of William Carlos Williams Mark Steven Section Three: Contemporary Literary Minds Chapter 9. 'The Creation of Space': Narrative Strategies, Group Agency, and Skill in Lloyd Jones's The Book of Fame John Sutton and Evelyn Tribble Chapter 10. Reproductive Aesthetics Stephen Muecke Chapter 11. Distended Moments in Neuronarrative: Character Consciousness and the Cognitive Sciences in Ian McEwan's Saturday Hannah Courtney Chapter 12. A Loose Democracy of the Skull: Characterology and Neuroscience Julian Murphet Afterword Paul Giles Index

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