Title The emergence of neuroscience and the German novel : poetics of the brain / Sonja Boos

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

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Description 1 online resource Series Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine. Contents Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Neuroscience -- Chapter Outline -- Chapter 2: Dissecting the Subject: Brain Localization in The Nightwatches of Bonaventura -- Beginnings -- The Organ of the Soul -- Craniology -- Chapter 3: Fiction's Scientific Double: Hallucinations in Jean Paul's Siebenkäs -- Phantasms -- Case Histories -- The Figure of the Double -- Unthought -- Chapter 4: A Tale from the Right Hemisphere: Amusia and Aphasia in Franz Grillparzer's The Poor Musician -- Amusia -- Absolute Music -- Realism -- Cerebral Hemispheres Chapter 5: Symmetry as Narrative Structure: OCD in Gottfried Keller's A Village Romeo and Juliet -- Monomania -- An Obsessive Idea -- Symmetry -- Pedophilia -- Chapter 6: Writing Against Forgetting: Korsakoff's Syndrome in Theodor Fontane's On Tangled Paths -- Memory Recuperation -- Amnesia -- Pseudo-reminiscences -- Condensation -- Chapter 7: Allegory, Modernity, Learning to See: Cytoarchitectonics in Rainer Maria Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge -- Scientizing Medicine -- Autopsy of the Soul -- Brain Ablation Chapter 8: Reading Gestures: Body Schema Disorder and Schizophrenia in Franz Kafka's Prose -- The Body Schema -- Animals -- Humans -- Schizophrenia -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Primary Literature -- Literary Sources -- Neuroscientific Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Index Summary The Emergence of Neuroscience and the German Novel: Poetics of the Brain revises the dominant narrative about the distinctive psychological inwardness and introspective depth of the German novel by reinterpreting the novels development from the perspective of the nascent discipline of neuroscience, the emergence of which is coterminous with the rise of the novel form. In particular, it asks how the novels formal propertiesstylistic, narrative, rhetorical, and figurativecorrelate with the formation of a neuroscientific discourse, and how the former may have assisted, disrupted, and/or intensified the medical articulation of neurological concepts. This study poses the question: how does this rapidly evolving field emerge in the context of nineteenth century cultural practices and what were the conditions for its emergence in the German-speaking world specifically? Where did neuroscience begin and how did it broaden in scope? And most crucially, to what degree does it owe its existence to literature? Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Literature and science -- Germany -- History -- 19th century Neurosciences -- History -- 19th century German fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism German fiction Literature and science Neurosciences Germany Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9783030828165 3030828166

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