Cognitive Joyce

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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 investigation—into 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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi Introduction (Sylvain Belluc, Valérie Bénéjam)....Pages 1-29 Knowledge and Identity in Joyce (Fran O’Rourke)....Pages 31-50 Intentionality and Epiphany: Husserl, Joyce, and the Problem of Access (Jean-Baptiste Fournier)....Pages 51-64 Authors’ Libraries and the Extended Mind: The Case of Joyce’s Books (Dirk Van Hulle)....Pages 65-82 Characters’ Lapses and Language’s Past: Etymology as Cognitive Tool in Joyce’s Fiction (Sylvain Belluc)....Pages 83-102 Joyce and Hypnagogia (Thomas Jackson Rice)....Pages 103-130 Spatialized Thought: Waiting as Cognitive State in Dubliners (Caroline Morillot)....Pages 131-143 The Invention of Dublin as “Naissance de la Clinique”: Cognition and Pathology in Dubliners (Benoît Tadié)....Pages 145-154 Cognition as Drama: Stephen Dedalus’s Mental Workshop in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (André Topia)....Pages 155-171 Joycean Text/Empathic Reader: A Modest Contribution to Literary Neuroaesthetics (Pierre-Louis Patoine)....Pages 173-192 Configuring Cognitive Architecture: Mind-Reading and Meta-Representations in Ulysses (Lizzy Welby)....Pages 193-207 Hallucination and the Text: “Circe” Between Narrative, Epistemology, and Neurosciences (Teresa Prudente)....Pages 209-228 “[The] Buzz in His Braintree, the Tic of His Conscience”: Consciousness, Language and the Brain in Finnegans Wake (Annalisa Volpone)....Pages 229-249 Back Matter ....Pages 251-285