Unorthodox Minds in Contemporary Fiction [Hardcover]

Unorthodox Minds in Contemporary Fiction?seeks to provide an overview of the ways in which broadly understood contemporary fiction envisions, explores and engenders minds going beyond the classical models.?The opening essay discusses the complex relationships between such innovative concepts of the mind and experimental techniques for presenting mentality.?The chapters which follow focus on (dis)embodied and/or extended mind, virtuality of avatar minds, intermental thought of reader communities, the capability of artificial intelligence (and humans) for genuine selfless love, the interplay between technology and affect in posthuman consciousness. The books under discussion include?Murmur?by Will Eaves,?The Unfortunates?by B.S. Johnson,?The Satanic Verses?by Salman Rushdie,?H(A)PPY?by Nicola Barker and?Machines Like Me?by Ian McEwan.?A piece of conceptual fiction by Steve Tomasula,?one of the most innovative American novelists of our times, exploring the human minds alleged power to transcend its biological limits,?complements these scholarly inquiries.

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List of Contributors

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Formal Experiments and Innovative Models of the Mind in Contemporary Fiction: An Introduction

Grzegorz Maziarczyk and Joanna Klara Teske

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1.Towards an Account of Interactive Narrative Time

Isabelle Wentworth

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2.Back and Forth: The Dynamics of Memory in Gabriel Josipovicis?After?and?The?Cemetery in Barnes

Magdalena Sawa

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3.Memory Works: The Enactivist Approach to the Fragmented Mind in B.S. Johnsons?The Unfortunates