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1 online resource (326 pages) |
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American culture studies ; volume 28
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American studies (Transcript (Firm)) ; Bd. 28.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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Mind and body in literature.
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Materialism in literature.
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Body and soul in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General |
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Body and soul in literature |
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American literature |
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Materialism in literature |
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Mind and body in literature |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Henneberg, Julian. Subjects of Substance : Recent American Literature and the Materiality of Mind. Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag, ©2020 9783837649291 |
| ISBN |
3839449294 (electronic book) |
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9783839449295 (electronic bk.) |
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9783837649291 paperback |
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3837649296 paperback |
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