Subjects of Substance: Recent American Literature and the Materiality of Mind

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Frontmatter Full access Pages 1 - 4 Download chapter (PDF)
Contents Full access Pages 5 - 6 Download chapter (PDF)
Acknowledgments No access Pages 7 - 8
1. Introduction: Materialist Minds No access Pages 9 - 28
2. Key Terms and Concepts No access Pages 29 - 50
3. "My wayward brain": Cerebral Subjectivity and Narrative Identity in the Neuro-Memoir No access Pages 51 - 118
4. "Just some kind of nerve impulse in the brain": Substances and Subjects in the Novels of Don DeLillo No access Pages 119 - 162
5. Between Agency and Automatism: David Foster Wallace''s Infinite Jest No access Pages 163 - 204
6. Neural Narrative: Richard Powers''s Galatea 2.2 and The Echo Maker No access Pages 205 - 264
Conclusion No access Pages 265 - 286
Works Cited No access Pages 287 - 330