UID:
almafu_9959658285902883
Format:
1 online resource (330 p.)
ISBN:
9783839449295
Series Statement:
American Culture Studies ; 28
Content:
Subjects of Substance traces the ways in which materialist conceptions of selfhood inspire and shape recent U.S. literature. While disciplines like neuroscience and evolutionary biology transform the human self from an immaterial essence into a material construct, authors likewise develop conceptions of somatic subjectivity in conjunction and in contrast with scientific and medical discourses. The present study examines the forms, functions, and effects of materialist models of mind in a number of memoirs and novels. Authors discussed include Michael Clune, Don DeLillo, Kay Redfield Jamison, Siri Hustvedt, Richard Powers, Elyn R. Saks, and David Foster Wallace.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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1. Introduction: Materialist Minds --
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2. Key Terms and Concepts --
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3. “My wayward brain”: Cerebral Subjectivity and Narrative Identity in the Neuro-Memoir --
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4. “Just some kind of nerve impulse in the brain”: Substances and Subjects in the Novels of Don DeLillo --
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5. Between Agency and Automatism: David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest --
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6. Neural Narrative: Richard Powers’s Galatea 2.2 and The Echo Maker --
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Conclusion --
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Works Cited
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In English.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.14361/9783839449295
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839449295
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839449295
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839449295
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839449295
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