Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 272 pages)
ISBN:
9780300235609
,
0300235607
Inhalt:
Featuring a foreword by renowned neuroscientist Joseph E. LeDoux, 'The Elusive Brain' is an illuminating, comprehensive survey of contemporary literature's engagement with neuroscience. This work explores how literature interacts with neuroscience to provide a better understanding of the brain's relationship to the self. Jason Tougaw surveys the work of contemporary writers - including Oliver Sacks, Temple Grandin, Richard Powers, Siri Hustvedt, and Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay - analyzing the way they experiment with literary forms to frame new views of the immaterial experiences that compose a self
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-261) and index
,
Introduction: You are your brain, you are not your brain -- 1 Before neuromania -- Interlude: neurodiversity in the age of the brain atlas -- 2 Brain memoirs -- 3 Three autistic autobiographers -- Interlude: if you've met one autistic reviewer ... -- 4 Narrating neurological difference -- 5 Touching brains in the neuronovel -- Interlude: interview with Maud Casey -- 6 Neurocomics and neuroimaging -- Epilogue: reading organisms in the age of neuroscience.
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Tougaw, Jason Daniel Elusive brain New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Sprache:
Englisch
Mehr zum Autor:
LeDoux, Joseph E. 1949-
