Beyond Bodies Gender, Literature and the Enigma of Consciousness
"Articulations and expressions of gender can be destabilising, transgressive, revolutionary and radical, encompassing both a painful legacy of oppression and a joyous exploration of new experience." Analysing key texts from the 19th to 21st centuries, this book explores a range of British...
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Amsterdam :
Editions Rodopi
2014.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Consciousness, literature & the arts ; 38. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b34703640*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Chapter OneCognition, consciousness and literary contexts; Gender, literature and consciousness; Gender, literature and society; Addressing bodies and the trouble of gender and consciousness; Challenging models of ""woman""; Interdisciplinary approaches to cognitionand consciousness; Questions of qualia and consciousness; Quantum consciousness; The gendered world according to traditional concepts; The ""problem"" of consciousness: Eastern andWestern approaches; The Cosmic Web; Literature and ""superconsciousness""
- The scope and contents of Beyond BodiesChapter Two Forging roads into consciousness: rasa and the influence of emotion in Wuthering Heights; Wuthering Heights: a journey through the images of emotion; Wuthering Heights and the uncanny; Symbolisms and sex; Rasa theory in drama and literature; Rasa, qualia, and consciousness; Rasa and Wuthering Heights; The horror of Heathcliff; Qualia, rasa and moral responsibility; Chapter ThreeIsolating consciousness: secrets, silencing and insanity; Jane Eyre: a journey through modes of consciousness.
- Jane Eyre and higher states of consciousness: up on the roofJane Eyre as ""autobiography"" of being and becoming; Maya and madness; ""The Library Window""; Paradoxes and problems: the ""other"" woman; Lady Audley's Secret; Madness as metaphor; Madness, marriage and meaning: ""The Yellow Wallpaper""; Conclusions; Chapter FourBeyond the veils of consciousness: individual andcollective awareness in the novels of George Eliot; George Eliot and the exploration of female consciousness; Middlemarch: ""The world is as we are""; The pier-glass analogy; Chhandas: the cover of reality.
- Inner and outer worlds: language and consciousnessThe Lifted Veil: A metaphysical masking of consciousness; The Victorian woman in action; Chapter FiveShifts into quantum consciousness: Virginia Woolf'smoments of being; Twentieth century revolutions in thought; The ""New Woman"" of the twentieth century; Virginia Woolf's radical writing; Escapes into consciousness; The stream of consciousness; The Waves; Loss of consciousness: Woolf beneath the waves; Quantum waves shed light on the stream of consciousness; Mrs Dalloway: The entanglement of consciousness.
- Gender and the quantum world: universal connectednessDisturbing the universe; Chapter SixConsciousness and freedom: women's space in thetwentieth-century Bildungsroman; Patriarchy and women's space; The Black Narcissus; The female quest narrative: The Crying of Lot 49; The ""Wild Zone"" of consciousness; Modern science and Vedic science shed light onPynchon's paradox; A journey through the Wild Zone: Housekeeping; Consciousness and women's language; Transience and transcendence; Chapter SevenBeyond gender myths: Angela Carter's feminist fables; Myths, fairy stories and gendered power games.
