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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
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