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Author Young, Kay, 1959-

Title Imagining minds : the neuro-aesthetics of Austen, Eliot, and Hardy / Kay Young.

Imprint Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2010.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  823.809353 Y85i 2010    ---  Available
Description x, 218 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Theory and interpretation of narrative
Theory and interpretation of narrative series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-204) and index.
Contents Introduction : the integrated mind -- Jane Austen and self-consciousness -- "A mind lively and at ease" : imagination and Emma -- "You pierce my soul" : feeling embodied and persuasion -- George Eliot and other-consciousness -- "A voice like music" : the problem of other minds and Middlemarch -- "Beloved ideas made flesh" : the embodied mind and Daniel Deronda -- Thomas Hardy and nonintrospective consciousness -- "Now I am melancholy mad" : mood and Jude the obscure -- "That blue narcotic haze" : dreams, dissociation, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles -- Coda : the neurology of narrative.
Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Consciousness in literature.
Other minds (Theory of knowledge)
Mind-brain identity theory.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Criticism and interpretation.
ISBN 9780814211397 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814251744 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0814251749 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0814211399 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814292389 (cd)
0814292380 (cd)
Standard No. 40018541827

 
    
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