Intangible materialism : the body, scientific knowledge, and the power of language /
Schleifer, Ronald.
Minneapolis, Minn. ; London : University of Minnesota Press,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: materialist literature -- Intangible materialism -- The faces of consilience: levels of understanding and the negative science of semiotics -- Material voices: Tourette syndrome, neurobiology, and the affect of poetry -- The history of the hand: Peirce's index, attention, and the power of narrative -- Pain, memory, and religious suffering: materiality and the subject of poetry.
Materialism in literature.
Materialism.
Human body in literature.
Human body (Philosophy)
Literature and science.
Literature
Semiotics.