Subjects of Substance : : Recent American Literature and the Materiality of Mind / / 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 conception...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American Culture Studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (330 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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