This collection is the first book-length study to re-evaluate all of James Joyce's major fictional works through the lens of cognitive studies. Cognitive Joyce presents Joyce's relationship to the scientific knowledge and practices of his time and examines his texts in light of contemporary developments in cognitive and neuro-sciences. The chapters pursue a threefold investigationinto the author's "extended mind" at work, into his characters' complex and at times pathological perceptive and mental processes, and into the elaborate responses the work elicits as we perform the act of reading. This volume not only offers comprehensive overviews of the oeuvre, but also detailed close-readings that unveil the linguistic focus of Joyce's drama of cognition.
Recenzijos
Cognitive Joyce, with its range of topics, approaches, and theorists, feels like what its editors claim it to be: an introduction, of sorts, to something diverse and new. (Royal Holloway, James Joyce Literary Supplement, Vol. 33 (2), 2019)
1 Introduction.- 2 Knowledge and Identity in Joyce.- 3 Intentionality
and Epiphany: Husserl, Joyce and the Problem of Access.- 4 Authors' Libraries
and the Extended Mind: The Case of Joyce's Books.- 5 Characters' Lapses and
Language's Past: Etymology as Cognitive Tool in Joyce's Fiction.- 6 Joyce and
Hypnagogia.- 7 Spatialized Thought: Waiting as Cognitive State in Dubliners.-
8 The Invention of Dublin as Naissance de la Clinique: Cognition and
Pathology in Dubliners.- 9 Cognition as Drama: Stephen Dedalus's Mental
Workshop in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.- 10 Joycean Text /
Empathic Reader: A Modest Contribution to Literary Neuroaesthetics.-
11 Configuring Cognitive Architecture: Mind-Reading and Meta-Representations
in Ulysses.- 12 Hallucination and the Text: Circe between Narrative,
Epistemology and Neurosciences.- 13 [ The] Buzz in His Braintree, the Tic of
HisConscience: Consciousness, Language and the Brain in Finnegans Wake.
Sylvain Belluc is Maītre de Conférences in English literature at the Université de Nīmes/Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 (EMMA), France. The recipient of several research scholarships, he is the author of numerous articles on Joyce, Conrad, linguistics, translation, and intertextuality.
Valérie Bénéjam is Maītre de Conférences in English literature at the Université de Nantes, France. She has written numerous articles on Joyce, Flaubert and Shakespeare, co-edited Making Space in the Works of James Joyce (with John Bishop, 2011), and is currently working on Joyce and drama.
