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The Fictional Minds of Modernism: Narrative Cognition from Henry James to Christopher Isherwood ed. by Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso (review)
Ist Teil von
Studies in the Novel, 2021-07, Vol.53 (2), p.192-195
Ort / Verlag
Denton: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Literature Online (LION)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Hagberg makes numerous and varied conclusions about how language works well, and while he does not extensively address linguistic errors, confusions, or opacity, his source materials keep these possibilities near at hand. [...]fiction is valuable evidence for understanding “social cognition,” the sharing of thoughts that enables “communication, cooperation, and the very possibility of culture” (133). According to Sheehan, Proust works against dominant psychological ideas of the time, and he aligns with those “masters of suspicion” Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, who believed in variations of a fundamental “truth of miscognition: a keen awareness that error cannot simply be bypassed but must somehow be absorbed and assimilated” (173). According to Sheehan, Marcel learns to live with his flawed theory of mind, and learns that art provides useful intelligence in the form of “suggestion, allusion, ambiguity and intuition, the generative and the creative, rather than the constraining intelligibility that accompanies ‘knowing’” (173).