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Print version: Robert, McParland Cultural Memory, Consciousness, and The Modernist Novel La Vergne : Academica Press,c2021 ISBN 9781680538830

Cultural Memory, Consciousnessand The Modernist Novel -- Robert McParland -- Cultural Memory, Consciousnessand The Modernist Novel -- Robert McParland -- Academica PressWashington~London -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Names: McParland, Robert. (author) -- Title: Cultural Memory, Consciousness, and the Modernist Novel | Robert McParland -- Description: Washington : Academica Press, 2022. | Includes references. -- Identifiers: LCCN 2021952082 | ISBN 9781680538830 (hardcover) | 9781680538847 (paperback) |  9781680538854 (e-book) -- Copyright 2022 Robert McParland -- Contents -- Preface vii -- Chapter OneModern Consciousness and Cultural Memory 1 -- Chapter TwoJoyce and Modern Consciousness 23 -- Chapter ThreeWilliam Butler Yeats: Mythic Consciousness 73 -- Chapter FourD.H. Lawrence: Consciousness and Vitalism 97 -- Chapter FiveVirginia Woolf: Perspective and Interiority 137 -- Bibliography 165 -- Index 183 -- Preface -- This book has been written primarily for general readers and for students who wish to inquire into the relationship between the modernist writers James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and consciousness and the notion of cultural memory. Each of these writers has left a remarkable record regarding the movement of their minds. -- Literary modernism engages a concern with consciousness, perception, time, memory, and language. This concern is an important feature in the literary accomplishments of the modernist writers considered here. The first chapter provides a broad overview of the topics of consciousness, memory, and pivotal thinkers and themes and aims to contextualize this study. Chapters follow on James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf. These chapters explore the ideas and creative ins.

In The Consciousness of Joyce, Richard Ellmann defines consciousness as "the movement of the mind both in recognizing its own shape and in maintaining that shape in the face of attack or change." William James held that one’s knowledge of things is an understanding of relations (Tague 34). Steven Rose points out that consciousness is a process that is "essentially social, being constituted in the relationship between a person and his or her social and physical milieu" (218). This appears central -- Literature can bring that epistemic light and create an aesthetic pleasure. Poetry and story can have an impact upon cognition and emotion. This registers in the autonomic nervous system and can be studied via brain imaging. A reader or listener responds to sound, rhythm, pattern, and imagery, and makes cognitive sense of language and the expression of ideas. Lisa Zunshine proposes that "cognitive cravings" are satisfied in literature (4). She turns to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, among sever -- Writers like Joyce, Lawrence, and Woolf were quite interested in the relationships between subjectivity and our experience of the objective world. William James, in 1890, observed what he called a "chasm" between the inner and outer worlds of life (I:146). About two-hundred and fifty years earlier, Rene Descartes emphasized that split. Descartes, in Meditations on First Philosophy (1641), sought to base his philosophy firmly upon axioms that were beyond doubt. He determined that the conscious, t -- James Joyce, like Merleau-Ponty, shows us the human-in-the-world. There is a phenomenology of perception, a structure of dynamic, lived behavior. Merleau-Ponty writes: "The structure of behavior as it presents itself to perceptual experience is neither thing nor consciousness.

These objects represent and mediate memory. They are available to us and reflect how we interpret the world and the past. Andreas Huyssen emphasizes this in Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia (1991). Collective memory is enshrined in events that recognize continuity with the past, that there is in a community a sense of shared experience, traditions, and a sense of origins. Benedict Anderson (1983) has asserted that imagined community emerged from the circulation of texts. E.

and it is this which renders it opaque to the mind" (28). Descartes’ cogito suggests that we would not know any "thing" unless we first knew our own thinking. However, Joyce, like Merleau-Ponty, shows us that human behavio -- Yet, the problem of consciousness persists. Three hundred years after Descartes, Gilbert Ryle, in Concept of Mind (1949) called Cartesian dualism the ghost in the machine. For Ryle, mind is a series of processes. Our talk of the mind as an entity is a category mistake, Ryle contended. The brain produces mind. The self is epiphenomenon of brain activity. To suggest soul is dualism. The neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran wrote that "the barrier between mind and matter is only apparent and arises as -- In his theory of consciousness, Daniel Dennett (1995) views the human mind as invested with ’memes’ (341). He sees the human brain as capable of working like a serial machine. He refers to this as a Joycean machine, named after Joyce’s stream-of-consciousness method in his fiction. We think about one thing, then another and another. The mind, in this materialist approach, is "an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes" (365).1 Even so, -- The challenge that philosophers like Chalmers and McGinn consider is subjectivity and qualia. The word qualia itself suggests quality. That is, it points toward the unique way in which Leopold Bloom sniffs tea, or Stephen Dedalus feels the rain. It tells of a private experience. Qualia are related to the physical world. Dualists will ask if there is a separate mental world. Merleau-Ponty critiques the subject-object dichotomy. He also critiques empiricist prejudices. In the dynamic structure of.

Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, in his probing of the neuroanatomy of human feeling, states his view that consciousness is "an evolved brain property, dependent on particular brain structures" (The Feeling 16). However, as Stephen Rose points out, neuroscientists "divide the field" of consciousness studies with philosophers (Rose 165). Some philosophers, following Merleau-Ponty, have countered that a naturalist description of the mind presents only one side of the story. There is also the comple -- Cultural memory is a collective awareness of what a community or nation has experienced historically. Present concerns may affect our perceptions and understanding of the past. However, the past influences our present. The "Time Passes" section of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse embodies not only the shock of the Great War but also the many past experiences we have encountered as readers reflecting upon the Ramsay family. Cultural memory and history of collective memory can be distinguished, -- A culture embodies its memories in archives. There are library repositories and many forms of information storage. A culture is recalled in recordings, photograph collections, film and tapes, memorial books, microfilm, inscriptions, public monuments, gravesite markers, buildings, obelisks, sculpture, and landscapes. There are re-enactments of battles, revivals of plays, paintings which present artistic images of the past. Memory is preserved in documentaries, novels, poems, and plays. Individual.

This study is, in some respects, similar to works by Michael Levenson, Stan Smith, and Sanford Schwartz as it leans toward intellectual history and poetics. As in the collection The Origins of English Modernism 1870-1914 (Academica, 2009) edited by Gregory F. Tague, this study includes an exploration of writers’ uses of mythology and impressionism. However, it also stretches into Joyce’s language play, Yeats’s occultism, Lawrence’s vitalism, and Woolf’s philosophical musings. The matter of cultu -- I am indebted to the biographers and critics who have examined the lives and writings of Joyce, Yeats, Lawrence, and Woolf. This book takes its keynote from studies by Richard Ellmann, The Consciousness of Joyce, Daniel J. Schneider, The Consciousness of D.H. Lawrence, and Gregory F. Tague’s Character and Consciousness. This work has been written for readers with a lively interest in modernism. The discussions are an exploration presented as a guide for reading, reflection, and further study. Th -- Chapter One Modern Consciousness and Cultural Memory -- Consciousness -- Cultural Memory -- Memory -- Ireland: The Other -- The Waste Land -- Phenomenology -- Time and Creative Evolution: Henri Bergson -- Modernism -- Notes -- Consciousness is at the center of the mind-body problem. It remains as fascinating a puzzle now as it has been across the many years that humans have reflected upon their minds. Scientists explore the physical basis of consciousness, its neuronal correlates, its sensory inputs, and processing. Metaphysicians assert that mind is expansive and is something other than matter, brain chemistry, and phenomenal states within the brain. Consciousness is a mystery.

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