Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind
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- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2021
Summary
What might behaviorism, that debunked school of psychology, tell us about literature?
If inanimate objects such as novels or poems have no mental properties of their own, then why do we talk about them as if they do? Why do we perceive the minds of characters, narrators, and speakers as if they were comparable to our own? In Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind, Joshua Gang offers a radical new approach to these questions, which are among the mos…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781421440842 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1421440849 |
| Author: | Joshua Gang |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Imprint: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2021 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Hopkins Studies in Modernism |
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Critics Review
[Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind]’s careful primary research on Beckett in particular will make it a valuable resource for scholars and students of Beckett, and the first chapter is recommended for those engaged with debates on literary studies method. The book develops Ryle as a philosopher with more to offer literary studies, as well, even as it reminds us that the provocations of behaviorism have shaped the conversation all along.
—Modern Philology
Joshua Gang
Joshua Gang is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
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