Description Featuring a foreword by renowned neuroscientist Joseph E. net..
He blogs at californica.
He is the author of The One You Get: Portrait of a Family Organism and Strange Cases: The Medical Case History and the British Novel.
About the Author Jason Tougaw is associate professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York.
Building on recent scholarship, Tougaw\'s evenhanded account will be an original contribution to the growing field of Neuroscience and literature.
He argues that their work offers a necessary counterbalance to a wider cultural neuromania that seeks out purely neural explanations for human behaviors as varied as reading, economics, empathy, and racism.
Jason Tougaw surveys the work of contemporary writers--including Oliver Sacks, Temple Grandin, Richard Powers, Siri Hustvedt, and Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay--analyzing the way they experiment with Literary forms to frame new views of the immaterial experiences that compose a self.
This fascinating book explores how literature interacts with Neuroscience to provide a better understanding of the brain\'s relationship to the self.
Le Doux, The Elusive Brain is an illuminating, comprehensive survey of contemporary literature\'s engagement with neuroscience.
Description Featuring a foreword by renowned neuroscientist Joseph E
