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Embodiment and the Cosmic Perspective in Twentieth-Century Fiction (Paperback)
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Embodiment and the Cosmic Perspective in Twentieth-Century Fiction (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
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In dialogue with groundbreaking technologies and scientific models,
twentieth century fiction presents readers with a vast mosaic of
perspectives on the cosmos. The literary imagination of the world
beyond the human scale, however, faces a fundamental difficulty:
if, as researchers in both cognitive science and narrative theory
argue, fiction is a practice geared toward the human embodied mind,
how can it cope with scientific theories and concepts- the Big
Bang, quantum physics, evolutionary biology, and so on-that resist
our common-sense intuitions and appear discontinuous, in spatial as
well as temporal terms, with our bodies? This book sets out to
answer this question by showing how the embodiment of mind
continues to matter even as writers- and readers-are pushed out of
their terrestrial comfort zone. Offering thoughtful commentary on
work by both mainstream literary authors and science fiction
writers (from Primo Levi to Jeanette Winterson, from Olaf Stapledon
to Pamela Zoline), Embodiment and the Cosmic Perspective in
Twentieth-Century Fiction explores the multiple ways in which
narrative can radically defamiliarize our bodily experience and
bridge the gap with cosmic realities. This investigation affords an
opportunity to reflect on the role of literature as it engages with
science and charts its epistemological and ethical ramifications.
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