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1 online resource (248 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Consciousness, literature & the arts ; 38
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Consciousness, literature & the arts ; 38.
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| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Chapter OneCognition, consciousness and literary contexts; Gender, literature and consciousness; Gender, literature and society; Addressing bodies and the trouble of gender and consciousness; Challenging models of ""woman""; Interdisciplinary approaches to cognitionand consciousness; Questions of qualia and consciousness; Quantum consciousness; The gendered world according to traditional concepts; The ""problem"" of consciousness: Eastern andWestern approaches; The Cosmic Web; Literature and ""superconsciousness"" |
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The scope and contents of Beyond BodiesChapter Two Forging roads into consciousness: rasa and the influence of emotion in Wuthering Heights; Wuthering Heights: a journey through the images of emotion; Wuthering Heights and the uncanny; Symbolisms and sex; Rasa theory in drama and literature; Rasa, qualia, and consciousness; Rasa and Wuthering Heights; The horror of Heathcliff; Qualia, rasa and moral responsibility; Chapter ThreeIsolating consciousness: secrets, silencing and insanity; Jane Eyre: a journey through modes of consciousness. |
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Jane Eyre and higher states of consciousness: up on the roofJane Eyre as ""autobiography"" of being and becoming; Maya and madness; ""The Library Window""; Paradoxes and problems: the ""other"" woman; Lady Audley's Secret; Madness as metaphor; Madness, marriage and meaning: ""The Yellow Wallpaper""; Conclusions; Chapter FourBeyond the veils of consciousness: individual andcollective awareness in the novels of George Eliot; George Eliot and the exploration of female consciousness; Middlemarch: ""The world is as we are""; The pier-glass analogy; Chhandas: the cover of reality. |
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Inner and outer worlds: language and consciousnessThe Lifted Veil: A metaphysical masking of consciousness; The Victorian woman in action; Chapter FiveShifts into quantum consciousness: Virginia Woolf'smoments of being; Twentieth century revolutions in thought; The ""New Woman"" of the twentieth century; Virginia Woolf's radical writing; Escapes into consciousness; The stream of consciousness; The Waves; Loss of consciousness: Woolf beneath the waves; Quantum waves shed light on the stream of consciousness; Mrs Dalloway: The entanglement of consciousness. |
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Gender and the quantum world: universal connectednessDisturbing the universe; Chapter SixConsciousness and freedom: women's space in thetwentieth-century Bildungsroman; Patriarchy and women's space; The Black Narcissus; The female quest narrative: The Crying of Lot 49; The ""Wild Zone"" of consciousness; Modern science and Vedic science shed light onPynchon's paradox; A journey through the Wild Zone: Housekeeping; Consciousness and women's language; Transience and transcendence; Chapter SevenBeyond gender myths: Angela Carter's feminist fables; Myths, fairy stories and gendered power games. |
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Angela Carter's feminist rewriting of fairy tales. |
| Summary |
"Articulations and expressions of gender can be destabilising, transgressive, revolutionary and radical, encompassing both a painful legacy of oppression and a joyous exploration of new experience." Analysing key texts from the 19th to 21st centuries, this book explores a range of British and Anglophone authors to contextualise women's writing and feminist theory with ongoing debates in consciousness studies. Discussing writers who strive to redefine the gendered world of "sexualized" space, whether internal or external, mental or physical, this book argues how the "delusion" of gender differe. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Women in literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Women in literature. |
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19th century |
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Women in literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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20th century |
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1800-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Grace, Daphne M. Beyond Bodies : Gender, Literature and the Enigma of Consciousness. Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, ©2014 9789042038349 |
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9789401210799 (electronic book) |
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9401210799 (electronic book) |
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9042038349 (paperback) |
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9789042038349 (paperback) |
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