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The emergence of neuroscience and the German novel : poetics of the brain

Title

The emergence of neuroscience and the German novel : poetics of the brain / Sonja Boos.

Author

Boos, Sonja, 1972-

Publication

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG, [2021]
©2021

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xvii, 262 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 cm

Summary

"The Emergence of Neuroscience and the German Novel: Poetics of the Brain revises the dominant narrative about the distinctive psychological inwardness and introspective depth of the German novel by reinterpreting the novels development from the perspective of the nascent discipline of neuroscience, the emergence of which is coterminous with the rise of the novel form. In particular, it asks how the novels formal propertiesstylistic, narrative, rhetorical, and figurativecorrelate with the formation of a neuroscientific discourse, and how the former may have assisted, disrupted, and/or intensified the medical articulation of neurological concepts. This study poses the question: how does this rapidly evolving field emerge in the context of nineteenth century cultural practices and what were the conditions for its emergence in the German-speaking world specifically? Where did neuroscience begin and how did it broaden in scope? And most crucially, to what degree does it owe its existence to literature?"--Back cover.

Series Statement

Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine

Uniform Title

Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-243) and index.

Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Dissecting the Subject : Brain Localization in The Nightwatches of Bonaventura -- Chapter 3: Fiction's Scientific Double : Hallucinations in Jean Paul's Siebenkäs -- Chapter 4: A Tale from the Right Hemisphere : Amusia and Aphasia in Franz Grillparzer's The Poor Musician -- Chapter 5: Symmetry as Narrative Structure : OCD in Gottfried Keller's A Village Romeo and Juliet -- Chapter 6: Writing Against Forgetting : Korsakoff's Syndrome in Theodor Fontane's On Tangled Paths -- Chapter 7: Allegory, Modernity, Learning to See : Cytoarchitectonics in Rainer Maria Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge -- Chapter 8: Reading Gestures : Body Schema Disorder and Schizophrenia in Franz Kafka's Prose -- Afterword.

ISBN

9783030828158
3030828158
9783030828165 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

on1264402299
SCSB-14352392

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library