Imagining Minds by Kay Young
Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy three great masters of the English novel are three remarkable imagining minds.As readers of their novels, we feel ourselves to be in contact with their authorial minds and conjure the minds they create spread across the pages of their narrative worlds. In the way that we believe in and hold in mind the idea that other human beings have minds of their own do we as readers of the novel believe we are in the presence of these other minds. But how?Imagining Minds explores how the novels of Austen, Eliot, and Hardy create the felt-quality of their authoring minds and of the minds they author by bringing their writing in relation to cognitive neuroscience accounts of the mind-brain, especially of William James and Antonio Damasio. It is in that relational space between the novels and theories of mind-brain that Kay Young works through her fundamental claim: the novel writes about the nature of mind, narrates it at work, and stimulates us to know deepened experiences of consciousness in its touching of our reading minds.While, in addition to James and Damasio, Young draws on a range of theories of mind-brain generated by current research in philosophy, neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis to help her understand the novel s imagining of mind, her claim is that those disciplines cannot themselves perform the more fully integrated because embodied and emotionally stimulating mind work of thenovel mind work that prompts us as their readers to better know our own minds.-
Why We Read Fiction
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Narrative Dynamics
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Having a Good Cry
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Fi-Sci
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Narrative in the Anthropocene
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Narrative Co-Construction
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Fictionality and Literature
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Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction
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Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States
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Literary Identification from Charlotte Bronte to Tsitsi Dangarembga
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Real Mysteries
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Feminist Narrative Ethics
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Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction
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The Reader as Peeping Tom
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A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative
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Narrative Structures and the Language of the Self
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Unnatural Narrative
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Environment and Narrative
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The Story of Fictional Truth
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Playing at Narratology
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Narrative Theory
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A New Anatomy of Storyworlds
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We-Narratives
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Contemporary French and Francophone Narratology
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Narrative Middles
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Unnatural Voices
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Becoming Pynchon
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Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts
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Disrupting Narrative Rhetoric
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Experiencing Visual Storyworlds
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Narrative Discourse
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Techniques for Living
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Deformative Fictions
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The Real, the True, and the Told
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I Know That You Know That I Know
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The Vitality of Allegory
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Never on Time, Always in Time
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Digital Fiction and the Unnatural
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Audionarratology
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Understanding Nationalism
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Debating Rhetorical Narratology
Kay Young is associate professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780814251744 |
| ISBN 10 | 0814251749 |
| Title | Imagining Minds |
| Author | Kay Young |
| Series | Theory And Interpretation Of Narrative |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Ohio State University Press |
| Year published | 2010-09-28 |
| Number of pages | 218 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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