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Author Tougaw, Jason Daniel, author.

Title The elusive brain : literary experiments in the age of neuroscience / Jason Tougaw ; foreword by Joseph E. LeDoux.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-261) and index.
Contents Introduction: You are your brain, you are not your brain -- 1 Before neuromania -- Interlude: neurodiversity in the age of the brain atlas -- 2 Brain memoirs -- 3 Three autistic autobiographers -- Interlude: if you've met one autistic reviewer... -- 4 Narrating neurological difference -- 5 Touching brains in the neuronovel -- Interlude: interview with Maud Casey -- 6 Neurocomics and neuroimaging -- Epilogue: reading organisms in the age of neuroscience.
Summary Featuring a foreword by renowned neuroscientist Joseph E. LeDoux, 'The Elusive Brain' is an illuminating, comprehensive survey of contemporary literature's engagement with neuroscience. This work explores how literature interacts with neuroscience to provide a better understanding of the brain's relationship to the self. Jason Tougaw surveys the work of contemporary writers - including Oliver Sacks, Temple Grandin, Richard Powers, Siri Hustvedt, and Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay - analyzing the way they experiment with literary forms to frame new views of the immaterial experiences that compose a self.
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Subject Rhetoric and psychology.
Rhetoric and psychology.
Writing -- Psychological aspects.
Writing -- Psychological aspects.
Literature, Experimental -- History and criticism.
Literature, Experimental.
Neurosciences and the humanities.
Neurosciences and the humanities.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author LeDoux, Joseph E., writer of foreword.
ISBN 9780300235609 (electronic book)
0300235607 (electronic book)
9780300221176
0300221177