Intangible materialism
Subtitle: the body, scientific knowledge, and the power of language
By: Ronald Schleifer.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780816644674; 9780816644681
Subjects: Materialism in literature; Materialism; Body, Human, in literature; Body, Human (Philosophy); Literature and science; Literature -- Philosophy; Semiotics
Description: "Taking as his point of departure Norbert Weiners statement that information is basic to understanding materialism in our era, Ronald Schleifer shows how discoveries of modern physics have altered conceptions of matter and energy and the ways in which both information theory and the study of literature can enrich these conceptions. Expanding the reductive notion of the material as simply matter and energy, he formulates a new, more inclusive idea of materialism."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: materialist literature; title: Intangible materialism; title: The faces of consilience: levels of understanding and the negative science of semiotics; title: Material voices: Tourette syndrome, neurobiology, and the affect of poetry; title: The history of the hand: Peirce's index, attention, and the power of narrative; title: Pain, memory, and religious suffering: materiality and the subject of poetry.