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...Maria Farland Duke University Press 2004 Maria Gertrude Stein’s Brain Work Farland In the eighteenth century that age of manners and formal morals it was believed that the temper of a woman was determined by the turn of her...

... the Internet does to our brains, Skillman approaches the question of attention through the field of cognitive science, leading her to writers who were engaged with the question of what our ever-evolving picture of the brain does to our sense of the mind. According to her, “This widespread, if ambivalent...

...Ralph James Savarese Ralph James Savarese , author of one book and editor of three collections, teaches at Grinnell College in Iowa. He spent the academic year 2012–2013 as a neurohumanities fellow at Duke's Institute for Brain Sciences. How Literature Plays with the Brain...

.... This essay offers a psychobiologically attentive reading of the factory hospital scene to investigate the potentialities of the Black protagonist’s embodied living. In the scene, racist doctors injure the protagonist’s brain through electroshock torture, disrupting his cognition and sympathetic nervous...

... presents the oscillation between familiarity and strangeness as the mechanism of wonder, both in the brain and in narrative, and performs wonder by taking readers through a series of dialectics that aim to defamiliarize the everyday. The Echo Maker ’s narrative complexity uncovers the obverse of wonder...

...Randall Knoper Duke University Press 2002 Randall American Literary Realism and Knoper Nervous ‘‘Reflexion’’ American literary realism flourished in the late nineteenth century along with rapid developments in the sciences of the brain and nervous system...

... Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . Pickens Therí Alyce . 2019 . Black Madness :: Mad Blackness . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . Rose Nikolas , and Abi-Rached Joelle M. 2013 . Neuro: The New Brain Science and the Management of the Mind . Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ...

... ‘Dreaming Awake and Asleep,’ ” Modern Language Studies 14 , no. 3 : 54 – 62 . Smail Daniel Lord . 2008 . On Deep History and the Brain . Berkeley and Los Angeles : Univ. of California Press . Steger Brigitte Brunt Lodewijk , eds. 2003 . Night-Time and Sleep in Asia...

... Projects Agency; DeBoyle et al. 2019). Modeled on mammalian brains, SyNAPSE has one million electronic neurons and 256 million synapses between neurons. SyNAPSE chips can be tiled to create large arrays, with each chip containing 5.4 billion transistors, the highest transistor count of any chip ever...

... with standard academic work: ‘‘Then I wanted to get as far away from literary criticism as possible. I wanted to do a kind of writing that would stem not from the rational, but from the fingertips or from the blood or from some other bodily fluid, but not from the brain, the rational brain To evaluate...

...- conscious mental representations of the physiological changes that constitute emotions.51 For further evidence of a cognition-emotion split, researchers point to the discovery of learned, durable, nonconscious emotive prefer- ences in people with forms of brain damage that prevent them from learning...

... onscreen body extends it filaments into our own imagining nerves, our own brains’ “representations of pain,” through a complex biosemiotic network. A crucial variable in my three sample texts is the presence or absence of intradiegetic witnesses to the ordeal. In the horror story, the wounding...

... of industry, tough spiky ugly flower, flower nonetheless, withtheformofthegreatyellow Rose in your brain! This is the flower of the World (CP, 113) 378 American Literature Ginsberg moves in this poem from a series of physical juxtapositions rendered in prepositional phrases to a series...

... Spiritualist writer and reformer Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan ( 1863 : 53) asked “a young writing-medium” to describe “how . . . spirits write through mediums,” the informant responded, “It is done by the spiritual fluid, which comes from the brain to the hand” and decides, upon explanation, to visualize...

...–89) would even frame a case of PTSD as a miswired nervous “telegraph line” in the brain, brought on by the Civil War. 38 A Vexierbild (puzzle picture) is an image with two possible readings. One of the most famous examples is a drawing depicting either a young or a very old woman, with both...

..., cognitive, and structural relations engendering the production of information, it did not take long for reflexivity to emerge as the sole arbiter of reality and subjectivity, however tenuous the distinction is between the two. In a 1959 paper entitled “What the Frog’s Eye Tells the Frog’s Brain,” attendees...

... am not suggesting that we shun neuroscience studies that tell us about our brains on fiction. But I am advocating that we recognize and own these arguments as historically contingent ones; they are (relatively) recent understandings of fiction’s value and purpose that require scrutiny and, perhaps...

... with “the heaviest brain on record” as proof that phrenology was a flawed science: Its weight was 80 ounces. The brain of a Rustan, an ignorant undeveloped Scandinavian peasant, weight 78.3 ounces, that of a dwarf Indian squaw 73.5 ounces. The heaviest brain among great men was Turenieff’s, the Russian novelist...

... was ‘‘to get the images living in my brains into the brains of others Tseng 2003.3.10 08:14 94 American Literature a notion he had forecast several years earlier in his autobiographi- cal novel Martin Eden (1909).12...

... technology” (31). Wang uses this recipe for giving a goji berry, ginger, date, and soy milk broth to an AI as an occasion to counter Western assumptions about how bodies are built. Whereas in Western philosophies the brain controls the body, “in Chinese medicine, there are eleven vital organs that work...