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

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 249 pages).
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Series Consciousness, literature and the arts ; volume 51
Consciousness, literature & the arts ; 51.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Explorations of Consciousness in Contemporary Fiction; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Contemporary Fiction and Consciousness; 1 "Unquantifiable factors": The Concept of Qualia in Two Novels about Artificial Intelligence by Richard Powers and David Gerrold; 2 Creations of the Posthuman Mind: Consciousness in Peter Watts's Blindsight; 3 "Men are Noisy creachers": Dystopian Consciousness in Patrick Ness's Chaos Walking Trilogy; 4 Autistic Consciousness Represented: Fictional Mental Functioning of a Different Kind.
5 Embodied Consciousness: Autism, Life Writing and the Limits of the Cognitive Paradigm6 Reality of the Unreal: The Use of Contradiction in Postmodern Fiction Exploring the Creative Potential of the Human Mind; 7 Art, Madness and the Divine in Russell Hoban's The Medusa Frequency; 8 Narrated Madness: Extreme States of Consciousness in A.S. Byatt's Frederica Quartet; 9 Richard Powers's "Hybrid Bastard": The Echo Maker and "The Postpsychiatric Novel"; 10 Bullet in the Head: Jess Walter's The Zero and the Conscious Conscience of 9/11.
11 The Embodied Mind: Janice Galloway's The Trick is to Keep Breathing12 Addressing the Self in Keri Hulme's the bone people; 13 Multimodality, Interactivity and Embodiment: Representation of Consciousness in Digital Narratives; 14 The Mind of Then We Came to the End: A Transmental Approach to Contemporary Metafiction; Index.
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Subject Fiction -- Psychological aspects.
Fiction -- Psychological aspects.
Consciousness in literature.
Consciousness in literature.
Postmodernism (Literature) -- English-speaking countries.
Postmodernism (Literature)
English-speaking countries.
Narration (Rhetoric) -- Psychological aspects.
Narration (Rhetoric) -- Psychological aspects.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Psychology in literature.
Psychology in literature.
Cognition in literature.
Cognition in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Maziarczyk, Grzegorz, editor.
Teske, Joanna Klara, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Explorations of consciousness in contemporary fiction. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017] 9789004347830 (DLC) 2017017292
ISBN 9004347852 (electronic book)
9789004347854 (electronic book)
9789004347830 (hardcover acid-free paper)