Explorations of Consciousness in Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9789004347830
Subjects: Consciousness in literature; Postmodernism (literature); Narration (rhetoric); Psychology in literature
Description: Explorations of Consciousness in Contemporary Fiction' is a collection of essays examining the potential of the contemporary English-language novel to represent and inquire into various aspects of the human mind. Grounded in contemporary literary theory as well as consciousness studies, the essays consider both narrative techniques by means of which writers attempt to render various states of consciousness (such as multimodality in digital fiction or experimental typography in post-traumatic narratives), and novelistic interpretations of issues currently being investigated by neurobiologists, cognitive scientists and philosophers of the mind (such as the adaptive value of consciousness or the process of self-integration by means of self-narration). The volume thus offers critical reflection upon the novel's cognitive accomplishment in this challenging area.