The Prosthetic Imagination

Boxall, Peter

doi:10.1017/9781108871297

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He Does Not Suffer Now: Death and Citizenship in the National Tale

Reznicek

2022

Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

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He Does Not Suffer Now: Death and Citizenship in the National Tale

Reznicek

2022

Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

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Stream of Consciousness: Some Propositions and Reflections

Royle

2024

Neuroethics

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This short communication explores the idea of “stream of consciousness” and considers some of the ways in which scientific writing relies – even or perhaps especially insofar as it does not signal this fact – on the resources of literary language and literary thinking. Particular attention is given to notions of literal and figurative or metaphorical language, including “hydrological” and “ontic” metaphor. A crucial figure is simile (the “like”), discussed here in relation to the Thomas Nagel’s “What is it Like to Be a Bat?”, Todd Feinberg and Jon Mallatt’s Consciousness Demystified, and Anil Seth’s Being You: A New Science of Consciousness. Neuroethics cannot restrict itself to the domain of technology and the human. The deconstruction of anthropocentrism, already underway in literary modernism, calls for responsibility in relation to non-human as well as human life-forms. Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway provides rich and multifarious resources for exploring these issues. Woolf’s novel is considered as a kind of literary water music, in which sense and feeling is not limited to the human, and distinctions between consciousness and the environment are susceptible to dissolution. Woolf’s work is concerned with a conception of stream of consciousness as telepathic fluidity, as “merging minds” but without restitution of the individual or collective.

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The Poem in the World

2024

The Cambridge Companion to the Poem

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The Prosthetic Imagination

Cited by 21 publications

References 94 publications

He Does Not Suffer Now: Death and Citizenship in the National Tale

He Does Not Suffer Now: Death and Citizenship in the National Tale

Stream of Consciousness: Some Propositions and Reflections

The Poem in the World

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