Modernist Minds

Materialities of the Mental in the Works of James Joyce

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James Joyce’s evocations of his characters’ thoughts are often inserted within a commonplace that regards the mind as an interior space, referred to as the ‘inward turn’ in literary scholarship since the mid-twentieth century. Emma-Louise Silva reassesses this vantage point by exploring Joyce’s modernist fiction through the prism of 4E – or embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive – cognition. By merging the 4E framework with cognitive-genetic narratology, an innovative form of inquiry that brings together the study of the dynamics of writing processes and the study of cognition in relation to narratives, Modernist Minds: Materialities of the Mental in the Works of James Joyce delves into the material stylistic choices through which Joyce’s approaches to mind depiction evolved.
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2024
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Emma-Louise Silva, Ph.D. (2019), University of Antwerp, is a postdoctoral researcher and visiting lecturer at that university. She has published articles on an array of Joyce-related topics, and has co-edited two volumes, including James Joyce and the Arts (Brill, 2020).
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1  Prologue Joycean Minds in Perspective

2  Shifting Understandings of the Mind
1 From Cartesian Dualism to Computationalism

2 4E Approaches to Cognition

3 A Reassessment of the ‘Inward Turn’


3  Cognitive Narratology and Genetic Criticism
1 Cognitive Narratology: Probing Fictional Minds

2 Genetic Criticism: Exploring Writing Processes

3 Cognitive-Genetic Narratology


4  Tracing Materialities of the Mental through Ulyssean Minds
1 The Mind of Stephen Dedalus

2 The Mind of Leopold Bloom

3 The Mind of Molly Bloom

4 Myriadminded James Joyce


5  Epilogue Recording, Simultaneously, What a Human Says, Sees, Thinks

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This study would be of interest to 1) students and scholars in the fields of Joyce studies, literary modernism, literary criticism, cognitive narratology, and genetic criticism, and 2) narrative theorists and philosophers of mind.
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