Emergence of Neuroscience and the German Novel

Emergence of Neuroscience and the German Novel

Poetics of the Brain

Boos, Sonja

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

09/2021

262

Dura

Inglês

9783030828158

15 a 20 dias

493

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