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Challenging the notion that modernism is marked by an “inward turn” – a configuration of the individual as distinct from the world – this collection delineates the relationship between the mind and material and social systems, rethinking our understanding of modernism’s representation of cognitive and affective processes.Through analysis of a variety of international novels, short stories, and films – all published roughly between 1890 and 1945 – the contributors to this collection demonstrate that the so-called “inward turn” of modernist narratives in fact reflects the necessary interaction between mind, self, and world that constitutes knowledge, and therefore precludes any radical split between these categories. The essays examine the cognitive value of modernist narrative, showing how the perception of objects and of other people is a relational activity that requires an awareness of the constant flux of reality. The Fictional Minds of Modernism explores how modernist narratives offer insights into the real, historical world not as a mere object of contemplation but as an object of knowledge, thus bridging the gap between classical narratology and modernist experimentation.
Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso is Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. He is the author of El Romanticismo americano y la idea de la literatura (American Romanticism and the Idea of Literature) (2018).
ForewordFrederick Aldama (Ohio State University, USA)1. Introduction: Mind and the Minding of the ModernRicardo Miguel-Alfonso (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)2. On the Cognitive Value of Modernist NarrativesJukka Mikkonen (University of Tampere, Finland)3. Embodying Emotion through Metaphor in Modernist FictionMarco Caracciolo (Ghent University, Belgium)4. Narratives of the Mind: Henry James, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the Emergence of a Modernist Language of the MindGarry Hagberg (Bard College, USA)5. The Mind, A Room of One’s Own: An Epiphanic Moment in Virginia WoolfJosé Ángel García-Landa (University of Zaragoza, Spain)6. Henry James and the Crypto-Psychological Novel: On the Mindfulness of The Awkward AgeJosé Antonio Álvarez-Amorós (University of Alicante, Spain)7. Complexities of Social Cognition in Dorothy Richardson’s Pointed RoofsPatrick Colm Hogan (University of Connecticut, USA)8. Atmospheric Changes: Proust, Mind-Reading, and ErrancyPaul Sheehan (Macquarie University, Australia)9. Weimar Cognitive Theory: Modernist Narrativity and the Metaphysics of Frame Stories (After Caligari and Kracauer)David LaRocca (Cornell University, USA)10. Reading Minds in Christopher Isherwood’s The Berlin StoriesJanine Utell (Widener University, USA)Notes on ContributorsIndex
Smart, original, and thoroughly engrossing, Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso’s new collection is a major achievement. This volume shows that the modernist writers explored here offered a radical rethinking of the relationship between mind, language, and world. The Fictional Minds of Modernism adds a new and fascinating dimension to our understanding of the philosophical import of literary modernism.
