Novel Sensations - Modernist Fiction and the Problem of Qualia

Informationen zum Autor Jon Day is Lecturer in English Literature 1900-1945, and Medical Humanities, Kings College London. Klappentext A radical intervention into critical debates over the status of sensation within modernist literature 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. Jon Day is Lecturer in English at King's College, London. Zusammenfassung 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..

Product details

• Authors: Jon Day, Day Jon
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781474458405
• ISBN: 978-1-4744-5840-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies