Novel Sensations : : Modernist Fiction and the Problem of Qualia / / Jon Day.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Day, Jon,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture : ECCSMC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

A radical intervention into critical debates over the status of sensation within modernist literatureOffers novel and insightful readings of key modernist authors within their philosophical contextsCritiques a range of ‘neuroaesthetic’ approaches to literary criticismProposes new ways of thinking about the relationship between philosophy, literature and technology within modernist studies.Concentrating on the work of four major modernist authors – Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis and Samuel Beckett – this book examines the close links between modernist literature and the philosophy of mind. By historicising the qualia debate and situating it within its cultural and literary contexts, it stages interventions into a range of academic debates: over the status of ‘sensations’ and ‘sense data’ within modernist fiction, over the scope and possibility of ‘neuroaesthetic’ approaches to literary criticism, and over the relationship between literature, philosophy and technology in the modernist moment.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- SERIES EDITORS’ PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: MODERNIST FICTION AND THE PROBLEM OF QUALIA -- 1 COGNITIVE REALISM, QUALIA AND THE INWARD TURN -- 2 WHAT VIRGINIA DIDN’T KNOW: KNOWLEDGE, IMPRESSIONISM AND THE EYE -- 3 WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE LEOPOLD BLOOM? -- 4 NEUROMODERNISM AND THE EXPLANATORY GAP -- 5 SAMUEL BECKETT AND MODERNISM’S NARRATIVES OF REDUCTION -- 6 HOLLOW MEN AND CHINESE ROOMS: WYNDHAM LEWIS AND THE WILL-TO-AUTOMATISM -- CONCLUSION: MODERNISM, QUALIA AND THE NARRATIVES OF BEHAVIOURISM -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX