03030nam 2200685Ia 450 991078118930332120230124183452.00-8166-6780-2(CKB)2550000000005143(EBL)471775(OCoLC)527737418(SSID)ssj0000339090(PQKBManifestationID)11224035(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000339090(PQKBWorkID)10299740(PQKB)10669142(MiAaPQ)EBC471775(MdBmJHUP)muse39344(Au-PeEL)EBL471775(CaPaEBR)ebr10353994(CaONFJC)MIL526128(EXLCZ)99255000000000514320090226d2009 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIntangible materialism[electronic resource] the body, scientific knowledge, and the power of language /Ronald SchleiferMinneapolis University of Minnesota Press20091 online resource (272 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4468-3 0-8166-4467-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: materialist literature -- Intangible materialism -- The faces of consilience: levels of understanding and the negative science of semiotics -- Material voices: Tourette syndrome, neurobiology, and the affect of poetry -- The history of the hand: Peirce's index, attention, and the power of narrative -- Pain, memory, and religious suffering: materiality and the subject of poetry.Taking as his point of departure Norbert Weiner's statement that information is basic to understanding materialism in our era, Ronald Schleifer shows how discoveries of modern physics have altered conceptions of matter and energy and the ways in which both information theory and the study of literature can enrich these conceptions. Expanding the reductive notion of "the material" as simply matter and energy, he formulates a new, more inclusive idea of materialism.Schleifer's project attempts to bridge the divisions between the humanities and the sciences and to create a nonreductive materialisMaterialism in literatureMaterialismHuman body in literatureHuman body (Philosophy)Literature and scienceLiteraturePhilosophySemioticsMaterialism in literature.Materialism.Human body in literature.Human body (Philosophy)Literature and science.LiteraturePhilosophy.Semiotics.809.9338Schleifer Ronald156180MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781189303321Intangible materialism3689530UNINA