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1 online resource (x, 249 pages). |
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Series |
Consciousness, literature and the arts ; volume 51
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Consciousness, literature & the arts ; 51.
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Fiction -- Psychological aspects.
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Fiction -- Psychological aspects. |
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Consciousness in literature.
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Consciousness in literature. |
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Postmodernism (Literature) -- English-speaking countries.
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Postmodernism (Literature) |
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English-speaking countries. |
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Narration (Rhetoric) -- Psychological aspects.
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Narration (Rhetoric) -- Psychological aspects. |
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Narration (Rhetoric) |
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Psychology in literature.
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Psychology in literature. |
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Cognition in literature.
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Cognition in literature. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Maziarczyk, Grzegorz, editor.
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Teske, Joanna Klara, editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Explorations of consciousness in contemporary fiction. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017] 9789004347830 (DLC) 2017017292 |
ISBN |
9004347852 (electronic book) |
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9789004347854 (electronic book) |
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9789004347830 (hardcover acid-free paper) |
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