Concentrating on the work of four major modernist authors Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis and Samuel Beckett this book examines the close links between modernist literature and the philosophy of mind. By historicising the qualia debate and situating it within its cultural and literary contexts, it stages interventions into a range of academic debates: over the status of 'sensations' and 'sense data' within modernist fiction, over the scope and possibility of 'neuroaesthetic' approaches to literary criticism, and over the relationship between literature, philosophy and technology in the modernist moment.

About the Author
Jon Day, Lecturer in English Literature, Kings College London.


Book Information
ISBN 9781474458405
Author Jon Day
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press