The fictional minds of modernism : narrative cognition from Henry James to Christopher Isherwood
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The fictional minds of modernism : narrative cognition from Henry James to Christopher Isherwood
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020
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Description
Challenging the notion that modernism is marked by an "inward turn" - a configuration of the individual as distinct from the world - this collection delineates the relationship between the mind and material and social systems, rethinking our understanding of modernism's representation of cognitive and affective processes.
Through analysis of a variety of international novels, short stories, and films - all published roughly between 1890 and 1945 - the contributors to this collection demonstrate that the so-called "inward turn" of modernist narratives in fact reflects the necessary interaction between mind, self, and world that constitutes knowledge, and therefore precludes any radical split between these categories. The essays examine the cognitive value of modernist narrative, showing how the perception of objects and of other people is a relational activity that requires an awareness of the constant flux of reality. The Fictional Minds of Modernism explores how modernist narratives offer insights into the real, historical world not as a mere object of contemplation but as an object of knowledge, thus bridging the gap between classical narratology and modernist experimentation.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Frederick Aldama (Ohio State University, USA)
1. Introduction: Mind and the Minding of the Modern
Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
2. On the Cognitive Value of Modernist Narratives
Jukka Mikkonen (University of Tampere, Finland)
3. Embodying Emotion through Metaphor in Modernist Fiction
Marco Caracciolo (Ghent University, Belgium)
4. Narratives of the Mind: Henry James, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the Emergence of a Modernist Language of the Mind
Garry Hagberg (Bard College, USA)
5. The Mind, A Room of One's Own: An Epiphanic Moment in Virginia Woolf
Jose Angel Garcia-Landa (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
6. Henry James and the Crypto-Psychological Novel: On the Mindfulness of The Awkward Age
Jose Antonio Alvarez-Amoros (University of Alicante, Spain)
7. Complexities of Social Cognition in Dorothy Richardson's Pointed Roofs
Patrick Colm Hogan (University of Connecticut, USA)
8. Atmospheric Changes: Proust, Mind-Reading, and Errancy
Paul Sheehan (Macquarie University, Australia)
9. Weimar Cognitive Theory: Modernist Narrativity and the Metaphysics of Frame Stories (After Caligari and Kracauer)
David LaRocca (Cornell University, USA)
10. Reading Minds in Christopher Isherwood's The Berlin Stories
Janine Utell (Widener University, USA)
Notes on Contributors
Index
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