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Subjects of Substance: Recent American Literature and the Materiality of Mind

Subjects of Substance: Recent American Literature and the Materiality of Mind

Henneberg, Julian

Paperback

Series: American Culture Studies

Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3837649296
ISBN13: 9783837649291
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Published: Jul 15 2020
Pages: 340
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Subjects of Substance traces the ways in which materialist conceptions of selfhood inspire and shape recent U.S. literature. While disciplines like neuroscience and evolutionary biology transform the human self from an immaterial essence into a material construct, authors likewise develop conceptions of somatic subjectivity in conjunction and in contrast with scientific and medical discourses. The present study examines the forms, functions, and effects of materialist models of mind in a number of memoirs and novels. Authors discussed include Michael Clune, Don DeLillo, Kay Redfield Jamison, Siri Hustvedt, Richard Powers, Elyn R. Saks, and David Foster Wallace.

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