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Consciousness as content: neuronarratives and the redemption of fiction.
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Mosaic (Winnipeg)
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March 1, 2008
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This essay identifies a new subgenre of narrative fiction, "neuronarratives," defined as works of fiction that incorporate advances in cognitive studies as a prominent theme, that compel novelists to struggle with consciousness as "content" and to reassess the value of narrative fiction.
The opening chapter of David Lodge's 2001 novel, Thinks ..., presents a self-conscious exercise in stream-of-consciousness narration. Ralph Messenger, Lodge's co-protagonist, is a cognitive scientist endeavouring to understand and describe the workings of the human mind. As the work begins, we encounter Ralph as he dictates his own thoughts into a tape recorder--a quaintly retrograde piece of ...
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