Straus The Novel and Neuroscience from Dostoevsky to Ishiguro

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-79160-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 222 Seiten

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

explores how affective neuroscience illuminates the emotional and ethical impact of eight novels written between 1864 and 2018, indicating how Freud’s provisional ideas in psychology are now being placed on an organic foundation. An emerging new language describes the brain and body’s primary-process powers now influencing the practices of literary theory, verifying the novel’s importance for self and cultural understanding.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Straus, Nina Pelikan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: A Short Neuro-Lit Glossary.- Chapter 3: De-sexualizing the Underground and Tolstoy’s Dangerous Music .- Chapter 4: Extended Consciousness and the Wisdom Paradox:  Eliot’s and Dostoevsky’s Last Novels.- Chapter 5: Eviscerating Memory in Kafka’s The Trial.- Chapter 6: Words on the page, emotions in the gut: Kundera’s Unbearable Lightness of Being.- Chapter 7: Marking Memory in Flesh : Toni Morrison’s Beloved.- Chapter 8: Artificial Feelings in Klara and the Sun.- Chapter 9: Conclusion: Transformed Consciousness and the Novel.

Über Autor(innen)

Nina PelikanStraus is Professor Emeritus at Purchase College SUNY, USA, and author of and articles on Tolstoy, Hardy, Bronte, Flaubert, Conrad, Kafka, Kundera, Derrida, Lacan, Sebald, Murakami, and Tokarczuk.