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100	1		_aCaracciolo, Marco, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aEmbodiment and the cosmic perspective in twentieth-century fiction / _cMarco Caracciolo
264		1	_aLondon ; _aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c2020.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aRoutledge studies in twentieth-century literature
520			_aIn 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.
588			_aOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
650		0	_aScience fiction _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aCosmology in literature.
650		0	_aNarration (Rhetoric) _xPhilosophy.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / General _2bisacsh
856	4	0	_3Taylor & Francis _uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003054931
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