The emergence of neuroscience and the German novel : poetics of the brain / Sonja Boos.
Boos, Sonja, 1972- author.
2021
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Title The emergence of neuroscience and the German novel : poetics of the brain / Sonja Boos.
Author Boos, Sonja, 1972- author.
ISBN 9783030828165 (electronic bk.)
3030828166 (electronic bk.)
3030828158
9783030828158
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82816-5
Imprint Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-82816-5 doi
Call Number PT289
Dewey Decimal Classification 833.7093561
Summary 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 novels 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 novels formal propertiesstylistic, narrative, rhetorical, and figurativecorrelate 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?
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783030828158
Emergence of neuroscience and the German novel
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Intro
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
Neuroscience
Chapter Outline
Chapter 2: Dissecting the Subject: Brain Localization in The Nightwatches of Bonaventura
Beginnings
The Organ of the Soul
Craniology
Chapter 3: Fiction's Scientific Double: Hallucinations in Jean Paul's Siebenkäs
Phantasms
Case Histories
The Figure of the Double
Unthought
Chapter 4: A Tale from the Right Hemisphere: Amusia and Aphasia in Franz Grillparzer's The Poor Musician
Amusia
Absolute Music
Realism
Cerebral Hemispheres

Chapter 5: Symmetry as Narrative Structure: OCD in Gottfried Keller's A Village Romeo and Juliet
Monomania
An Obsessive Idea
Symmetry
Pedophilia
Chapter 6: Writing Against Forgetting: Korsakoff's Syndrome in Theodor Fontane's On Tangled Paths
Memory Recuperation
Amnesia
Pseudo-reminiscences
Condensation
Chapter 7: Allegory, Modernity, Learning to See: Cytoarchitectonics in Rainer Maria Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Scientizing Medicine
Autopsy of the Soul
Brain Ablation

Chapter 8: Reading Gestures: Body Schema Disorder and Schizophrenia in Franz Kafka's Prose
The Body Schema
Animals
Humans
Schizophrenia
Afterword
Bibliography
Primary Literature
Literary Sources
Neuroscientific Sources
Secondary Literature
Index

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