The Emergence of Mind: Representations of Consciousness in Narrative Discourse in English (Frontiers of Narrative)

From Chaucer’s Pardoner to Eliot’s Edward Casaubon, from Behn’s Oroonoko to Woolf’s Clarissa Dalloway—the multifarious perceptions, inferences, memories, attitudes, and emotions of such characters are in some cases as vividly familiar to us readers as those of the living, breathing individuals we know from our own day-to-day experiences in the world at large. Equally diverse are the investigative frameworks that have been developed to study such fictional minds, their operations and qualities, and the narrative means used to portray them. __The Emergence of Mind__ provides new perspectives on the strategies used to represent minds in stories and suggests the variety of analytic approaches that illuminate those strategies. In this interdisciplinary and groundbreaking collection of essays, distinguished scholars such as Monika Fludernik, Alan Palmer, and Lisa Zunshine examine trends in the representation of consciousness in English-language narrative discourse from 700 to the present. Tracing commonalities and differences in the portrayal of fictional minds over virtually the entire time span during which narrative discourse in English has been written and read, __The Emergence of Mind__ will have a lasting impact on literary studies, narratology, and other fields. 700-1050: embodiment, metaphor, and the mind in Old English narrative / Leslie Lockett 1050-1500: through a glass darkly; or, the emergence of mind in Medieval narrative / Monika Fludernik 1500-1620: reading, consciousness, and romance in the sixteenth century / F. Elizabeth Hart 1620-1700: mind on the move / Elizabeth Bradburn 1700-1775: theory of mind, social hierarchy, and the emergence of narrative subjectivity / Lisa Zunshine 1775-1825: affective landscapes and romantic consciousness / David Vallins 1825-1880: the network of nerves / Nicholas Dames 1880-1945: re-minding modernism / David Herman 1945-: ontologies of consciousness / Alan Palmer. Representing Minds In Old And Middle English Narrative -- Sixteenth- And Seventeenth-century Minds -- Contexts For Consciousness In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries -- Remodeling The Mind In Modernist And Postmodernist Narrative. Edited By David Herman. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. An anthology that traces the representation of consciousness and mind creation in English literature from 700 to the present.