The Emergence of Neuroscience and the German Novel : Poetics of the Brain / / by Sonja Boos

• Autore: Boos Sonja <1972->
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2021.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 pages)
• Disciplina: 833.7093561
• Soggetto topico: Literature, Modern - 19th century; Fiction; European literature; Medicine and the humanities; Communication in science; Science - History; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Fiction Literature; European Literature; Medical Humanities; Science Communication; History of Science
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. Dissecting the Subject: Brain Localization in The Nightwatches of Bonaventura -- 3. Fiction’s Scientific Double: Hallucinations in Jean Paul’s Siebenkäs -- 4. A Tale from the Right Hemisphere: Amusia and Aphasia in Franz Grillparzer’s The Poor Musician -- 5. Symmetry as Narrative Structure: OCD in Gottfried Keller’s A Village Romeo and Juliet -- 6. Writing Against Forgetting: Korsakoff’s Syndrome in Theodor Fontane’s On Tangled Paths -- 7. Allegory, Modernity, Learning to See: Cytoarchitectonics in Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge -- 8. Reading Gestures: Body Schema Disorder and Schizophrenia in Franz Kafka’s Prose.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Emergence of Neuroscience and the German Novel: Poetics of the Brain revises the dominant narrative about the distinctive psychological inwardness and introspective depth of the German novel by reinterpreting the novel’s development from the perspective of the nascent discipline of neuroscience, the emergence of which is coterminous with the rise of the novel form. In particular, it asks how the novel’s formal properties—stylistic, narrative, rhetorical, and figurative—correlate with the formation of a neuroscientific discourse, and how the former may have assisted, disrupted, and/or intensified the medical articulation of neurological concepts. This study poses the question: how does this rapidly evolving field emerge in the context of nineteenth century cultural practices and what were the conditions for its emergence in the German-speaking world specifically? Where did neuroscience begin and how did it broaden in scope? And most crucially, to what degree does it owe its existence to literature?
• Titolo autorizzato: The Emergence of Neuroscience and the German Novel
• ISBN: 3-030-82816-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910502648803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, . 2634-6443