TY - BOOK ID - 86196949 TI - The Emergence of Neuroscience and the German Novel : Poetics of the Brain PY - 2021 SN - 3030828166 3030828158 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Literature and science KW - Neurosciences KW - History KW - Neural sciences KW - Neurological sciences KW - Neuroscience KW - Medical sciences KW - Nervous system KW - Poetry and science KW - Science and literature KW - Science and poetry KW - Science and the humanities KW - Literature, Modern KW - Fiction. KW - European literature. KW - Medicine and the humanities. KW - Communication in science. KW - Science KW - Nineteenth-Century Literature. KW - Fiction Literature. KW - European Literature. KW - Medical Humanities. KW - Science Communication. KW - History of Science. KW - Communication in research KW - Science communication KW - Science information KW - Scientific communications KW - Humanities and medicine KW - Humanities KW - European literature KW - Fiction KW - Metafiction KW - Novellas (Short novels) KW - Novels KW - Stories KW - Literature KW - Novelists KW - 19th century. KW - History. KW - Philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86196949 AB - The Emergence of Neuroscience and the German Novel: Poetics of the Brain revises the dominant narrative about the distinctive psychological inwardness and introspective depth of the German novel by reinterpreting the novel’s development from the perspective of the nascent discipline of neuroscience, the emergence of which is coterminous with the rise of the novel form. In particular, it asks how the novel’s formal properties—stylistic, narrative, rhetorical, and figurative—correlate with the formation of a neuroscientific discourse, and how the former may have assisted, disrupted, and/or intensified the medical articulation of neurological concepts. This study poses the question: how does this rapidly evolving field emerge in the context of nineteenth century cultural practices and what were the conditions for its emergence in the German-speaking world specifically? Where did neuroscience begin and how did it broaden in scope? And most crucially, to what degree does it owe its existence to literature? ER -