Description
This collection is the first book-length study to re-evaluate all of James Joyce's major fictional works through the lens of cognitive studies. Cognitive Joyce presents Joyce's relationship to the scientific knowledge and practices of his time and examines his texts in light of contemporary developments in cognitive and neuro-sciences. The chapters pursue a threefold investigation—into the author's "extended mind" at work, into his characters' complex and at times pathological perceptive and mental processes, and into the elaborate responses the work elicits as we perform the act of reading. This volume not only offers comprehensive overviews of the oeuvre, but also detailed close-readings that unveil the linguistic focus of Joyce's drama of cognition.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction.- 2 Knowledge and Identity in Joyce.- 3 Intentionality and Epiphany: Husserl, Joyce and the Problem of Access.- 4 Authors' Libraries and the Extended Mind: The Case of Joyce's Books.- 5 Characters' Lapses and Language's Past: Etymology as Cognitive Tool in Joyce's Fiction.- 6 Joyce and Hypnagogia.- 7 Spatialized Thought: Waiting as Cognitive State in Dubliners.- 8 The Invention of Dublin as “Naissance de la Clinique”: Cognition and Pathology in Dubliners.- 9 Cognition as Drama: Stephen Dedalus's Mental Workshop in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.- 10 Joycean Text / Empathic Reader: A Modest Contribution to Literary Neuroaesthetics.- 11 Configuring Cognitive Architecture: Mind-Reading and Meta-Representations in Ulysses.- 12 Hallucination and the Text: “Circe” between Narrative, Epistemology and Neurosciences.- 13 “[The] Buzz in His Braintree, the Tic of HisConscience”: Consciousness, Language and the Brain in Finnegans Wake.
