Metafiction, Defamiliarization and Cognitive Science: Andrew Crumey’s Mr Mee and Richard Powers’ Galatea 2.2
Metafiction, Defamiliarization and Cognitive Science: Andrew Crumey’s Mr Mee and Richard Powers’ Galatea 2.2
Author(s): Corina SelejanSubject(s): Aesthetics, Sociology of Culture, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Editura Universitatii LUCIAN BLAGA din Sibiu
Keywords: the Two Cultures; (self)consciousness; metafiction; defamiliarization; metafiction; academic fiction; cognitive literarystudies; foregrounding;
Summary/Abstract: The present article considers two metafictional novels publishedat the end of the 20 th century against the background of cognitiveliterary studies. The formal features of the novels are discussedwith a view to the way they defamiliarize various concepts: fictionitself, consciousness, memory, science, art, reading, the internet, artificial intelligence, etc. The novels’ attempts at fosteringadialogue between fiction and the humanities, on the one hand, andscience and technology, on the other, are mirrored by the reader’svacillation between engagement and detachment and the effectsofthe texts’ self-reflexivity on the reader’s mind.
Journal: East-West Cultural Passage
- Issue Year: 23/2023
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 8-23
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English
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