Culture and consciousness
Subtitle: literature regained
By: William S. Haney.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lewisburg, Pa; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; English drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Philosophy, Indic, in literature; Consciousness in literature; Culture in literature; Criticism -- India; English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Description: "Culture and Consciousness argues that the vast interdisciplinary boom in consciousness research has enormous implications for literary and cultural studies, and that the potential benefits of this research in the twenty-first century are momentous. Its objective is to show how consciousness studies can help us reassess our approach to key issues and the fundamental assumptions of contemporary theory and criticism.

In eight chapters, the first three theoretical and the others largely applied, major points of contention in the humanities are explored through a perspective that accommodates the full range of mind and consciousness. Haney demonstrates that the debates in theory surrounding the questions of identity, truth, and language, which have so far eluded the mind or reason, cannot be resolved without recourse to the structure of consciousness and intersubjectivity - an interaction mediated by language and resulting in mutual agreement.

Chapters four to eight apply the notion of intersubjectivity to the reading of specific works."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-192) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. The Science of Mind, Consciousness, and Literary Studies 15; title: 2. Models of the Self 46; title: 3. Deconstruction, Indian Literary Theory, and Consciousness 67; title: 4. Intersubjective Phenomenology and Performance 89; title: 5. Postmodernism and the Drama of Consciousness 105; title: 6. Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five: Shell Shock or Hysteria 126; title: 7. DeLillo's White Noise: The Aesthetics of Cyberspace 136; title: 8. Ethics, Free Will, and Consciousness: Reading Philip K.; title: Dick and Stanislaw Lem 156.