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Explorations of Consciousness in Contemporary Fiction is a collection of essays examining the potential of the contemporary English-language novel to represent and inquire into various aspects of the human mind. Grounded in contemporary literary theory as well as consciousness studies, the essays consider both narrative techniques by means of which writers attempt to render various states of consciousness (such as multimodality in digital fiction or experimental typography in post-traumatic narratives), and novelistic interpretations of issues currently being investigated by neurobiologists, cognitive scientists and philosophers of the mind (such as the adaptive value of consciousness or the process of self-integration by means of self-narration). The volume thus offers critical reflection upon the novel’s cognitive accomplishment in this challenging area. Contributors are: Nathan D. Frank, Judit Friedrich, Justyna Galant, Marta Komsta, Péter Kristóf Makai, Ajitpaul Mangat, Grzegorz Maziarczyk, James McAdams, Daniel Panka, Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz, Joanna Klara Teske, Lloyd Issac Vayo, Dóra Vecsernyés, Sylwia Wilczewska

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Author:   Grzegorz Maziarczyk ,  Joanna Klara Teske
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   51
Weight:   0.543kg
ISBN:  

9789004347830

ISBN 10:   9004347836
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   03 August 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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b>Notes on Contributors Introduction: Contemporary Fiction and Consciousness  Grzegorz Maziarczyk and Joanna Klara Teske 1 “Unquantifiable factors”: The Concept of Qualia in Two Novels about Artificial Intelligence by Richard Powers and David Gerrold  Dániel Panka 2 Creations of the Posthuman Mind: Consciousness in Peter Watts’sBlindsight  Justyna Galant 3 “Men are Noisy creachers”: Dystopian Consciousness in Patrick Ness’sChaos Walking Trilogy  Marta Komsta 4 Autistic Consciousness Represented: Fictional Mental Functioning of a Different Kind  Péter Kristóf Makai 5 Embodied Consciousness: Autism, Life Writing, and the Limits of the Cognitive Paradigm  Ajitpaul Mangat 6 Reality of the Unreal: The Use of Contradiction in Postmodern Fiction Exploring the Creative Potential of the Human Mind  Joanna Klara Teske 7 Art, Madness and the Divine in Russell Hoban’sThe Medusa Frequency  Sylwia Wilczewska 8 Narrated Madness: Extreme States of Consciousness in A.S. Byatt’s Frederica Quartet  Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz 9 Richard Powers’s “Hybrid Bastard”: The Echo Maker and “The Postpsychiatric Novel”  James McAdams 10 Bullet in the Head: Jess Walter’s The Zero and the Conscious Conscience of 9/11  Lloyd Isaac Vayo 11 The Embodied Mind: Janice Galloway’s The Trick is to Keep Breathing  Dóra Vecsernyés 12 Addressing the Self in Keri Hulme’s the bone people  Judit Friedrich 13 Multimodality, Interactivity and Embodiment: Representation of Consciousness in Digital Narratives  Grzegorz Maziarczyk 14 The Mind of Then We Came to the End: A Transmental Approach to Contemporary Metafiction  Nathan D. Frank Index

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Grzegorz Maziarczyk, Ph.D. (2003), John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, is Head of Department of American Literature and Culture at that university. He has published monographs and articles on contemporary fiction, including The Novel as Book (KUL Press, 2013). Joanna Klara Teske, Ph.D. (2007), John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, is Assistant Professor in the Institute of English Studies. She has published on contemporary fiction and cognitive theory of art, including Contradictions in Art: The Case of Postmodern Fiction (2016).

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