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The elusive brain : literary experiments in the age of neuroscience / Jason Tougaw ; foreword by Joseph E. LeDoux.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300235609
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • P301 .E487 2018
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Contents:
1 Before neuromania -- Interlude: neurodiversity in the age of the brain atlas -- 2 Brain memoirs -- 3 Three autistic autobiographers -- Interlude: if you've met one autistic reviewer... -- 4 Narrating neurological difference -- 5 Touching brains in the neuronovel -- Interlude: interview with Maud Casey -- 6 Neurocomics and neuroimaging -- Epilogue: reading organisms in the age of neuroscience.
Summary: Featuring a foreword by renowned neuroscientist Joseph E. LeDoux, 'The Elusive Brain' is an illuminating, comprehensive survey of contemporary literature's engagement with neuroscience. This work explores how literature interacts with neuroscience to provide a better understanding of the brain's relationship to the self. Jason Tougaw surveys the work of contemporary writers - including Oliver Sacks, Temple Grandin, Richard Powers, Siri Hustvedt, and Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay - analyzing the way they experiment with literary forms to frame new views of the immaterial experiences that compose a self.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: You are your brain, you are not your brain -- 1 Before neuromania -- Interlude: neurodiversity in the age of the brain atlas -- 2 Brain memoirs -- 3 Three autistic autobiographers -- Interlude: if you've met one autistic reviewer... -- 4 Narrating neurological difference -- 5 Touching brains in the neuronovel -- Interlude: interview with Maud Casey -- 6 Neurocomics and neuroimaging -- Epilogue: reading organisms in the age of neuroscience.

Featuring a foreword by renowned neuroscientist Joseph E. LeDoux, 'The Elusive Brain' is an illuminating, comprehensive survey of contemporary literature's engagement with neuroscience. This work explores how literature interacts with neuroscience to provide a better understanding of the brain's relationship to the self. Jason Tougaw surveys the work of contemporary writers - including Oliver Sacks, Temple Grandin, Richard Powers, Siri Hustvedt, and Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay - analyzing the way they experiment with literary forms to frame new views of the immaterial experiences that compose a self.

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