
Novelistic Inquiries into the Mind
Joanna Klara Teske(Author)
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published on 15. September 2016
Book
Hardback
205 pages
978-1-4438-9490-6 (ISBN)
Description
Novelistic Inquiries into the Mind traces the multiple relations between the mind and the contemporary novel. The contributors here examine various types of narrative fiction, ranging from the postmodern novels of J. M. Coetzee and Ian McEwan through the experimental prose of Leslie Scalapino to the popular fiction of James Dashner and Christopher Moore. On the one hand, they investigate novelistic representations of various mind-related issues, including different states of consciousness, Alzheimer's disease, thought experiments and formation of the self. On the other, by analysing and evaluating in these contexts such narrative devices as unreliable narration, development of conceptual networks or multimodal integration of verbal and non-verbal semiotic resources, they exemplify the multiplicity of techniques whereby the novel can explore the intricacies of mental processes.Taken together, the essays collected here demonstrate the potential of the novel as genre for representing the mind. In its exploration of the problems involved in the linguistic construction of reality, the cognitive function of art and the uncertain status of consciousness, the contemporary novel thus reflects the mind's urge to understand itself, as well as possible meanings of its own perceptions, creations and projections.
More details
Edition
Unabridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Newcastle upon Tyne
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Unabridged edition
Product notice
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4438-9490-6 (9781443894906)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

Unknown | Grzegorz Maziarczyk | Joanna Klara Teske
Novelistic Inquiries into the Mind
E-Book
09/2016
1st Edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
€168.99
Available for download
Persons
Grzegorz Maziarczyk is Assistant Professor of English and American Literature at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. He has authored two monographs, The Narratee in Contemporary British Fiction (2005) and The Novel as Book: Textual Materiality in Contemporary Fiction in English (2013), and co-edited Echoes of Utopia: Notions, Rhetoric, Poetics (2012), as well as (Im)perfection Subverted, Reloaded and Networked: Utopian Discourse across Media (2015). Joanna Klara Teske is Assistant Professor of English Studies at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. She has published Philosophy in Fiction (2008), in addition to articles on the methodology of the humanities, cognitive potential of art and the postmodern novel.