Novel Sensations

Modernist Fiction and the Problem of Qualia

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Av Jon Day, Kings College London) Day, Jon (Lecturer in English Literature

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Concentrating on the work of four major modernist authors Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis and Samuel Beckett this book examines the close links between modernist literature and the philosophy of mind. By historicising the qualia debate and situating it within its cultural and literary contexts, it stages interventions into a range of academic debates: over the status of 'sensations' and 'sense data' within modernist fiction, over the scope and possibility of 'neuroaesthetic' approaches to literary criticism, and over the relationship between literature, philosophy and technology in the modernist moment.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-05-30
Mått156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt334 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture
Antal sidor208
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474458405

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AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Modernist Fiction and the Problem of Qualia1. Cognitive Realism, Qualia and the Inward Turn2. What Virginia Didn’t Know: Knowledge, Impressionism and the Eye3. What is it like to Be Leopold Bloom? 4. Neuromodernism and the Explanatory Gap5. Samuel Beckett and Modernism’s Narratives of Reduction6. Hollow Men and Chinese Rooms: Wyndham Lewis and the Will-to-AutomatismConclusion: Modernism, Qualia, and the Narratives of BehaviourismBibliography

Day’s account of early twentieth century philosophical debates around qualia provides a refreshingly original approach to understanding the representation of minds, bodies, and their relation to the world in modernist writing. A valuable work of historicist criticism, the book demonstrates the limitations of current neuroaesthetic, cognitive/affective and purely phenomenological accounts of the modernist mind.