Consciousness & the novel
Subtitle: connected essays
By: David Lodge.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism; Fiction -- Authorship -- Psychological aspects; American fiction -- History and criticism; Consciousness in literature
Other titles: Consciousness and the novel
Description: "Human Consciousness, long the province of literature, has lately come in for a remapping - even rediscovery - by the natural sciences, driven by developments in Artificial Intelligence, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. As the richest record we have of human consciousness, literature, David Lodge suggests, may offer a kind of understanding that is complementary, not opposed, to scientific knowledge.

Writing with characteristic wit and brio, and employing the insight and acumen of a skilled novelist and critic, Lodge here explores the representation of human consciousness in fiction (mainly English and American) in light of recent investigations in the sciences."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Including the Richard Ellmann lectures in modern literature"--p. [ii].