The Novel and Neuroscience from Dostoevsky to Ishiguro

The Novel and Neuroscience from Dostoevsky to Ishiguro explores how affective neuroscience illuminates the emotional and ethical impact of eight novels written between 1864 and 2018, indicating how Freud's provisional ideas in psychology are now being placed on an organic foundation. An emerging new language describes the brain and body's primary-process powers now influencing the practices of literary theory, verifying the novel's importance for self and cultural understanding.

Info autore

Nina PelikanStraus
is Professor Emeritus at Purchase College SUNY, USA, and author of
Dostoevsky and the Woman Question
and articles on Tolstoy, Hardy, Bronte, Flaubert, Conrad, Kafka, Kundera, Derrida, Lacan, Sebald, Murakami, and Tokarczuk.

Riassunto

The Novel and Neuroscience from Dostoevsky to Ishiguro
explores how affective neuroscience illuminates the emotional and ethical impact of eight novels written between 1864 and 2018, indicating how Freud’s provisional ideas in psychology are now being placed on an organic foundation. An emerging new language describes the brain and body’s primary-process powers now influencing the practices of literary theory, verifying the novel’s importance for self and cultural understanding.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Nina Pelikan Straus
• Editore: Springer, Berlin
• Lingue: Inglese
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 13.04.2025
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata
• EAN: 9783031791598
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3179159-8
• Numero di pagine: 222
• Illustrazioni: VII, 222 p. 4 illus., 3 illus. in color.
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 14.8 x 1.6 x 21 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 395 g
• Categorie: Philosophie des Geistes, Artificial Intelligence, Narratology, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Philosophy of Mind, Comparative Literature, consciousness, Novel, Affect Theory, Neurobiology, Cognitive Science, Dostoevsky, Literature, Science and Medicine Studies, Embodied Emotions, Cognitive Literary Studies