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Recent U.S. literature has both been informed by, and critically engaged with, materialist conceptions of selfhood. Over the past decades, disciplines like neuroscience and evolutionary biology have increasingly recast the human self as a malleable construct produced by physiological processes. In a parallel development, literary authors have created their own conceptions of somatic subjectivity in conjunction or contrast with scientific and medical discourses. Subjects of Substance examines the forms, functions, and effects of materialist models of mind in selected memoirs and novels. Authors discussed include Michael W. Clune, Don DeLillo, Kay Redfield Jamison, Siri Hustvedt, Richard Powers, Elyn R. Saks, and David Foster Wallace.
Price: $45.00
Pages: 330
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: American Culture Studies
Publication Date:
15 July 2020
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837649291
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
Julian Henneberg, born in 1981, earned his doctorate from the Graduate School of North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. He lives and works in Berlin.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgments 7
1. Introduction: Materialist Minds 9
2. Key Terms and Concepts 29
3. "My wayward brain": Cerebral Subjectivity and Narrative Identity in the Neuro-Memoir 51
4. "Just some kind of nerve impulse in the brain": Substances and Subjects in the Novels of Don DeLillo 119
5. Between Agency and Automatism: David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest 163
6. Neural Narrative: Richard Powers's Galatea 2.2 and The Echo Maker 205
Conclusion 265
Works Cited 287