LEADER 04409nam 2200625 450 001 9910786524403321 005 20230803203112.0 010 $a94-012-1079-9 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401210799 035 $a(CKB)3710000000129337 035 $a(EBL)1686638 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001331289 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11718931 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001331289 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11336111 035 $a(PQKB)10186575 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1686638 035 $a(OCoLC)881568400$z(OCoLC)962391182$z(OCoLC)964329334$z(OCoLC)994497394 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401210799 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1686638 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10883310 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL811836 035 $a(OCoLC)881568400 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000129337 100 $a20140627h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBeyond bodies $egender, literature and the enigma of consciousness /$fDaphne M. Grace ; Aart Jan Bergshoeff, cover design 210 1$aAmsterdam, Netherlands :$cRodopi,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (248 p.) 225 1 $aConsciousness, Literature & the Arts,$x1879-6044 ;$v38 300 $aAngela Carter's feminist rewriting of fairy tales. 311 $a90-420-3834-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreliminary Material -- Cognition, consciousness and literary contexts -- Forging roads into consciousness: rasa and the influence of emotion in Wuthering Heights -- Isolating consciousness: secrets, silencing and insanity in Victorian novels -- Beyond the veils of consciousness: individual and collective awareness in the novels of George Eliot -- Shifts into quantum consciousness: Virginia Woolf?s moments of being -- Consciousness and freedom: women?s space in the twentieth-century Bildungsroman -- Beyond gender myths: Angela Carter?s feminist fables -- Transforming gender: passion, desire and consciousness -- Quests and questions of consciousness: Margaret Atwood?s post-human futures -- Consciousness and conscience: the ethics of enlightenment -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $a?Articulations and expressions of gender can be destabilising, transgressive, revolutionary and radical, encompassing both a painful legacy of oppression and a joyous exploration of new experience.? Analysing key texts from the 19th to 21st centuries, this book explores a range of British and Anglophone authors to contextualise women?s writing and feminist theory with ongoing debates in consciousness studies. Discussing writers who strive to redefine the gendered world of ?sexualized? space, whether internal or external, mental or physical, this book argues how the ?delusion? of gender difference can be addressed and challenged. In literary theory and in representations of the female body in literature, identity has increasingly become a shifting, multiple, renegotiable?and controversial?concept. While acknowledging historical and cultural constructions of sexuality, ?writing the body? must ultimately incorporate knowledge of human consciousness. Here, an understanding of consciousness from contemporary science (especially quantum theory)?as the fundamental building block of existence, beyond the body ?allows unique insights into literary texts to elucidate the problem of subjectivity and what it means to be human. Including discussion of topics such as feminism and androgyny, agency and entrapment, masculinities and masquerade, insanity and emotion, and individual and social empowerment, this study also creates a lively engagement with the literary process as a means of fathoming the ?enigma? of consciousness. 410 0$aConsciousness, literature & the arts ;$v38. 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809 700 $aGrace$b Daphne M.$01567786 702 $aBergshoeff$b Aart Jan 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786524403321 996 $aBeyond bodies$93839460 997 $aUNINA