Overview

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.

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Author:   Prof Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9781501359774

ISBN 10:   1501359770
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   20 February 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword Frederick Aldama (Ohio State University, USA) 1. Introduction: Mind and the Minding of the Modern Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain) 2. On the Cognitive Value of Modernist Narratives Jukka Mikkonen (University of Tampere, Finland) 3. Embodying Emotion through Metaphor in Modernist Fiction Marco Caracciolo (Ghent University, Belgium) 4. Narratives of the Mind: Henry James, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the Emergence of a Modernist Language of the Mind Garry Hagberg (Bard College, USA) 5. The Mind, A Room of One's Own: An Epiphanic Moment in Virginia Woolf Jose Angel Garcia-Landa (University of Zaragoza, Spain) 6. Henry James and the Crypto-Psychological Novel: On the Mindfulness of The Awkward Age Jose Antonio Alvarez-Amoros (University of Alicante, Spain) 7. Complexities of Social Cognition in Dorothy Richardson's Pointed Roofs Patrick Colm Hogan (University of Connecticut, USA) 8. Atmospheric Changes: Proust, Mind-Reading, and Errancy Paul 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 Stories Janine Utell (Widener University, USA) Notes on Contributors Index

Reviews

Miguel-Alfonso's collection succeeds in its challenge to remain equally sensitive to fictional minds as both epistemological and aesthetic resources. Taking the empiricist impulse in late 19th century psychology as a prompt to rethink - and redirect - the 'inward turn' of Modernism, the collection makes an authoritative contribution to the field of cognitive literary studies and cognitive historicism. At the same time, like any good Modernist, it commits to introspection, reflecting, with each bold step forward, on the place of contemporary cognitive science in 21st-century literary studies. * David Ciccoricco, Associate Professor of English and Linguistics, University of Otago, New Zealand *

Author Information

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).

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