Consciousness and the novel : connected essays
Lodge, David, 1935-2018
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Human consciousness, long the province of literature, has lately come in for a remapping - even rediscovery - by the natural sciences, driven by developments in Artificial Intelligence, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. But as the richest record we have of human consciousness, literature, David Lodge suggests, may offer a kind of knowledge about this phenomenon that is complementary, not opposed, to scientific knowledge. Writing with characteristic wit and brio, and employing the insight and acumen of a skilled novelist and critic, Lodge here explores the representation of human consciousness in fiction (mainly English and American) in the light of recent investigations in cognitive science, neuroscience, and related disciplines. How, Lodge asks, does the novel represent consciousness? And how has this changed over time?
Main title:
Consciousness and the novel : connected essays / David Lodge.
Author:
Lodge, David, 1935-, author
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2018.
Collation:
xii, 320 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Secker & Warburg, 2002.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780099554493 (pbk)
Dewey class:
820.9'353
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
305295