Explorations of consciousness in contemporary fiction / / edited by Grzegorz Maziarczyk, Joanna Klara Teske.

• TeilnehmendeR: Maziarczyk, Grzegorz.; Teske, Joanna Klara.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Consciousness, Literature and the Arts 51.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (259 pages).
• Other title: Contemporary Fiction and Consciousness /; “Unquantifiable factors”: The Concept of Qualia in Two Novels about Artificial Intelligence by Richard Powers and David Gerrold /; Creations of the Posthuman Mind: Consciousness in Peter Watts’s Blindsight /; “Men are Noisy creachers”: Dystopian Consciousness in Patrick Ness’s Chaos Walking Trilogy /; Autistic Consciousness Represented: Fictional Mental Functioning of a Different Kind /; Embodied Consciousness: Autism, Life Writing and the Limits of the Cognitive Paradigm /; Reality of the Unreal: The Use of Contradiction in Postmodern Fiction Exploring the Creative Potential of the Human Mind /; Art, Madness and the Divine in Russell Hoban’s The Medusa Frequency /; Narrated Madness: Extreme States of Consciousness in A. S. Byatt’s Frederica Quartet /; Richard Powers’s “Hybrid Bastard”: The Echo Maker and “The Postpsychiatric Novel” /; Bullet in the Head: Jess Walter’s The Zero and the Conscious Conscience of 9/11 /; The Embodied Mind: Janice Galloway’s The Trick is to Keep Breathing /; Addressing the Self in Keri Hulme’s the bone people /; Multimodality, Interactivity and Embodiment: Representation of Consciousness in Digital Narratives /; The Mind of Then We Came to the End: A Transmental Approach to Contemporary Metafiction /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004347852
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Grzegorz Maziarczyk, Joanna Klara Teske.

Explorations of Consciousness in Contemporary Fiction is a collection of essays examining the potential of the contemporary English-language novel to represent and inquire into various aspects of the human mind. Grounded in contemporary literary theory as well as consciousness studies, the essays consider both narrative techniques by means of which writers attempt to render various states of consciousness (such as multimodality in digital fiction or experimental typography in post-traumatic narratives), and novelistic interpretations of issues currently being investigated by neurobiologists, cognitive scientists and philosophers of the mind (such as the adaptive value of consciousness or the process of self-integration by means of self-narration). The volume thus offers critical reflection upon the novel’s cognitive accomplishment in this challenging area. Contributors are: Nathan D. Frank, Judit Friedrich, Justyna Galant, Marta Komsta, Péter Kristóf Makai, Ajitpaul Mangat, Grzegorz Maziarczyk, James McAdams, Daniel Panka, Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz, Joanna Klara Teske, Lloyd Issac Vayo, Dóra Vecsernyés, Sylwia Wilczewska