1st Edition

Embodiment and the Cosmic Perspective in Twentieth-Century Fiction

By Marco Caracciolo Copyright 2020
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

In 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,... Read more

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Living Within Narrow Limits

1. Strange Spaces

2. The Cosmology of Everyday Life

3. Sex and the Cosmos

4. Posthuman Time Faces the Hard Problem

5. Bodies from Outer Space

6. The Wide, Wide Cosmos

Coda: And So What?

References

Biography

Marco Caracciolo received a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2012. He is an Associate Professor of English and Literary Theory at Ghent University in Belgium, where he leads NARMESH, a collaborative project on contemporary narrative and the nonhuman. His work has appeared in journals such as New Literary History, Contemporary Literature, Poetics Today, and Narrative. He is the author of three books: The Experientiality of Narrative: An Enactivist Approach (De Gruyter, 2014; honorable mention for the Perkins Prize of the International Society for the Study of Narrative); Strange Narrators in Contemporary Fiction (University of Nebraska Press, 2016); and A Passion for Specificity (coauthored with psychologist Russell Hurlburt; Ohio State University Press, 2016).