LEADER 04370nam 2200613 450 001 9910493693203321 005 20170920010556.0 010 $a90-04-32367-8 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004323674 035 $a(CKB)3710000000846672 035 $a(EBL)4715106 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4715106 035 $a(OCoLC)956342237 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004323674 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000846672 100 $a20161020h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe persistence of the human $econsciousness, meta-body and survival in contemporary film and literature /$fby Matthew Escobar 210 1$aLeiden, [Netherlands] ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cBrill,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (228 p.) 225 1 $aConsciousness, Literature and the Arts,$x1573-2193 ; ;$vVolume 48 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-04-32362-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Human, Consciousness and Its Temporality -- Testing the Human: Trauma, Memory and Consciousness -- The Phantom Limb: Specters, Trauma, and Meta-body -- Survival: Human and Posthuman -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aRecent narrative fiction and film increasingly exploit, explore and thematize the embodied mind, revealing the tenacity of a certain brand of humanism. The presence of narratively based concepts of personal identity even in texts which explore posthuman possibilities is strong proof that our basic understanding of what it means to be human has, despite appearances, remained mostly unchanged. This is so even though our perception of time has been greatly modified by the same technology which both interrupts and allows for the rearrangement of our experience of time at a rate and a level of ease which, until recently, had never been possible. Basing his views on a long line of philosophers and literary theorists such as Paul Ricoeur, Daniel Dennett and Francisco Varela, Escobar maintains in The Persistence of the Human that narrative plays an essential role in the process of constituting and maintaining a sense of self. It is narrative?s effect on the embodied mind which gives it such force. Narrative projects us into possible spaces, shaping a temporary corporeality termed the ?meta-body,? a hybrid shared by the lived body and an imagined corporeal sense. The meta-body is a secondary embodiment that we inhabit for however long our narrative immersion lasts ? something which, in today?s world, may be a question of milliseconds or hours. The more agreeable the meta-body is, the less happy we are upon being abruptly removed from it, though the return is essential. We want to be able to slip back and forth between this secondary embodiment and that of our lived body; each move entails both forgetting and remembering different subject positions (loss and recuperation being salient themes in the works which highlight this process). The negotiation of the transfer between these states is shaped by culture and technology and this is something which is precisely in flux now as multiple, ephemeral narrative immersion experiences are created by the different screens we come into contact with. 410 0$aConsciousness, literature & the arts ;$vVolume 48. 606 $aIdentity (Psychology) in literature 606 $aIdentity (Psychology) in motion pictures 606 $aHuman body in literature 606 $aSelf-perception in motion pictures 606 $aSelf-perception in literature 606 $aHuman body in motion pictures 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aIdentity (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aIdentity (Psychology) in motion pictures. 615 0$aHuman body in literature. 615 0$aSelf-perception in motion pictures. 615 0$aSelf-perception in literature. 615 0$aHuman body in motion pictures. 676 $a809/.93353 700 $aEscobar$b Matthew$01052827 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910493693203321 996 $aThe persistence of the human$92484310 997 $aUNINA