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Unorthodox Minds in Contemporary Fiction

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvGrzegorz Maziarczyk,Joanna Klara Teske

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Unorthodox Minds in Contemporary Fiction seeks to provide an overview of the ways in which broadly understood contemporary fiction envisions, explores and engenders minds going beyond the classical models. The opening essay discusses the complex relationships between such innovative concepts of the mind and experimental techniques for presenting mentality. The chapters which follow focus on (dis)embodied and/or extended mind, virtuality of avatar minds, intermental thought of reader communities, the capability of artificial intelligence (and humans) for genuine selfless love, the interplay between technology and affect in posthuman consciousness. The books under discussion include Murmur by Will Eaves, The Unfortunates by B.S. Johnson, The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, H(A)PPY by Nicola Barker and Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan. A piece of conceptual fiction by Steve Tomasula, one of the most innovative American novelists of our times, exploring the human mind’s alleged power to transcend its biological limits, complements these scholarly inquiries.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-09-30
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt453 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
Antal sidor250
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032649337

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Grzegorz Maziarczyk is Director of the Institute of Literary Studies at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. His main research interests include textual materiality, multimodal storytelling, digital narrativity, fictional minds and dystopia. He is the author of The Narratee in Contemporary British Fiction (2005) and The Novel as Book: Textual Materiality in Contemporary Fiction in English (2013).Joanna Klara Teske is Associate Professor in the Institute of Literary Studies at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. She is the author of Philosophy in Fiction (2008), Contradictions in Art: The Case of Postmodern Fiction (2016) and articles on contemporary English-language fiction and cognitive theory of art. She is currently working on projects concerning metamodernist fiction and narrative representations of mentality.

List of FiguresList of ContributorsFormal Experiments and Innovative Models of the Mind in Contemporary Fiction: An IntroductionGrzegorz Maziarczyk and Joanna Klara Teske1.Towards an Account of Interactive Narrative TimeIsabelle Wentworth2.Back and Forth: The Dynamics of Memory in Gabriel Josipovici’s After and The Cemetery in BarnesMagdalena Sawa3.Memory Works: The Enactivist Approach to the Fragmented Mind in B.S. Johnson’s The UnfortunatesDaria Baryshnikova4.“I am a being but not a body”: The Representations of (Dis)embodiment in Murmur by Will EavesPatrycja Podgajna5.The Avatar Dynamic: Cognitive Conditions in Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic VersesNathan D. Frank6.Casting a Digital Shadow: Juan José Millás and Current Human ExperienceMichal Tal7. Happy New World: Consciousness, Technology and Affect in Nicola Barker's H(A)PPYGrzegorz Maziarczyk8. Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan and Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro: Artificial Intelligence and Genuine Love Joanna Klara Teske9.Networks of Minds in David Foster Wallace’s Online CommunitiesGabriela Tucan10.Clay (A Sci-Fi Parable (with at Least 2 Endings))Steve TomasulaIndex