LEADER 03027nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910821699803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8166-6780-2 035 $a(CKB)2550000000005143 035 $a(EBL)471775 035 $a(OCoLC)527737418 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000339090 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11224035 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000339090 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10299740 035 $a(PQKB)10669142 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC471775 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse39344 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL471775 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10353994 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL526128 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000005143 100 $a20090226d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIntangible materialism $ethe body, scientific knowledge, and the power of language /$fRonald Schleifer 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-4468-3 311 $a0-8166-4467-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aTaking 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 materialis 606 $aMaterialism in literature 606 $aMaterialism 606 $aHuman body in literature 606 $aHuman body (Philosophy) 606 $aLiterature and science 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aSemiotics 615 0$aMaterialism in literature. 615 0$aMaterialism. 615 0$aHuman body in literature. 615 0$aHuman body (Philosophy) 615 0$aLiterature and science. 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aSemiotics. 676 $a809.9338 700 $aSchleifer$b Ronald$0156180 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821699803321 996 $aIntangible materialism$93934264 997 $aUNINA