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Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness - Couverture souple

Kramnick, Jonathan

 
9780226573151: Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 022657315X ISBN 13 : 9780226573151
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2018

Synopsis

How do poems and novels create a sense of mind? What does literary criticism say in conversation with other disciplines that addresses problems of consciousness? In Paper Minds, Jonathan Kramnick takes up these vital questions, exploring the relations between mind and environment, the literary forms that uncover such associations, and the various fields of study that work to illuminate them.
Opening with a discussion of how literary scholarship’s particular methods can both complement and remain in tension with corresponding methods particular to the sciences, Paper Minds then turns to a series of sharply defined case studies. Ranging from eighteenth-century poetry and haptic theories of vision, to fiction and contemporary problems of consciousness, to landscapes in which all matter is sentient, to cognitive science and the rise of the novel, Kramnick’s essays are united by a central thematic authority. This unified approach of these essays shows us what distinctive knowledge that literary texts and literary criticism can contribute to discussions of perceptual consciousness, created and natural environments, and skilled engagements with the world.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jonathan Kramnick is the Maynard Mack Professor of English and director of the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University. He is the author of Making the English Canon, Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson, and Paper Minds, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
022657315X
ISBN 13 
9780226573151
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
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