The Intelligent Unconscious in Modernist Literature and Science

The Intelligent Unconscious in Modernist Literature and Science
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 212
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781000226591
ISBN-13 : 100022659X
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Intelligent Unconscious in Modernist Literature and Science by : Thalia Trigoni

Download or read book The Intelligent Unconscious in Modernist Literature and Science written by Thalia Trigoni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reassesses the philosophical, psychological and, above all, the literary representations of the unconscious in the early twentieth century. This period is distinctive in the history of responses to the unconscious because it gave rise to a line of thought according to which the unconscious is an intelligent agent able to perform judgements and formulate its own thoughts. The roots of this theory stretch back to nineteenth-century British physiologists. Despite the production of a number of studies on modernist theories of the relation of the unconscious to conscious cognition, the degree to which the notion of the intelligent unconscious influenced modernist thinkers and writers remains understudied. This study seeks to look back at modernism from beyond the Freudian model. It is striking that although we tend not to explore the importance of this way of thinking about the unconscious and its relationship to consciousness during this period, modernist writers adopted it widely. The intelligent unconscious was particularly appealing to literary authors as it is intertwined with creativity and artistic novelty through its ability to move beyond discursive logic. The book concentrates primarily on the works of D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot, authors who engaged the notion of the intelligent unconscious, reworked it and offered it for the consumption of the general populace in varied ways and for different purposes, whether aesthetic, philosophical, societal or ideological.


The Intelligent Unconscious in Modernist Literature and Science Related Books

The Intelligent Unconscious in Modernist Literature and Science
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Thalia Trigoni
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-16 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book reassesses the philosophical, psychological and, above all, the literary representations of the unconscious in the early twentieth century. This perio
Music and Myth in Modern Literature
Language: en
Pages: 237
Authors: Josh Torabi
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-20 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book is the first major study that explores the intrinsic connection between music and myth, as Nietzsche conceived of it in The Birth of Tragedy (1872), i
The Persistence of the Soul in Literature, Art and Politics
Language: en
Pages: 287
Authors: Delphine Louis-Dimitrov
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-01-29 - Publisher: Springer Nature

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book analyses the evolution of literary and artistic representations of the soul, exploring its development through different time periods. The volume comb
Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction
Language: en
Pages: 124
Authors: Laura Oulanne
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-05-30 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction provides a fresh approach to reading material things in modern fiction, accounting for the interplay of the material and
D. H. Lawrence, Technology, and Modernity
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Indrek Männiste
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-07 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

While the dehumanizing effects of technology, modernity, and industrialization have been widely recognized in D. H. Lawrence's works, no book-length study has b