Unorthodox Minds in Contemporary Fiction
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Unorthodox Minds in Contemporary Fiction

  1. 246 pages
  2. English
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Unorthodox Minds in Contemporary Fiction

About this book

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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Yes, you can access Unorthodox Minds in Contemporary Fiction by Grzegorz Maziarczyk,Joanna Klara Teske in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Literary Criticism for Comparative Literature. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Figure
  8. Contributors
  9. Formal Experiments and Innovative Models of the Mind in Contemporary Fiction: An Introduction
  10. 1 Towards an Account of Interactive Narrative Time
  11. 2 Back and Forth: The Dynamics of Memory in Gabriel Josipovici's After and The Cemetery in Barnes
  12. 3 Memory Works: The Enactivist Approach to the Fragmented Mind in B.S. Johnson's The Unfortunates
  13. 4 “I Am a Being but Not a Body”: The Representations of (Dis)embodiment in Murmur by Will Eaves
  14. 5 The Avatar Dynamic: Cognitive Conditions in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
  15. 6 Casting a Digital Shadow: Juan José Millás and Current Human Experience
  16. 7 Happy New World: Consciousness, Technology and Affect in Nicola Barker's H(A)PPY
  17. 8 Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan and Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro: Artificial Intelligence and Genuine Love
  18. 9 Networks of Minds in David Foster Wallace's Online Communities
  19. 10 Clay (A Sci-Fi Parable (with at Least 2 Endings))
  20. Index