Subjects of Substance : : Recent American Literature and the Materiality of Mind / / Julian Henneberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
• VerfasserIn: Henneberg, Julian,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: American Culture Studies ; 28
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839449295; 9783110696295; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704747; 9783110704532; 9783110696301; 9783111025124; 9783110689617
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839449295?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Julian Henneberg.

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 conceptions of somatic subjectivity in conjunction and in contrast with scientific and medical discourses. The present study examines the forms, functions, and effects of materialist models of mind in a number of memoirs and novels. Authors discussed include Michael Clune, Don DeLillo, Kay Redfield Jamison, Siri Hustvedt, Richard Powers, Elyn R. Saks, and David Foster Wallace.