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100	1		_aEscobar, Matthew.
245	1	4	_aThe persistence of the human : _bconsciousness, meta-body and survival in contemporary film and literature / _cby Matthew Escobar.
264		1	_aLeiden ; _aBoston : _bBrill Rodopi, _c[2016]
300			_a1 online resource (viii, 218 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aConsciousness, literature and the arts, _x1573-2193 ; _vv. 48
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_aPreliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Human, Consciousness and Its Temporality -- Testing the Human: Trauma, Memory and Consciousness -- The Phantom Limb: Specters, Trauma, and Meta-body -- Survival: Human and Posthuman -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
506			_aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520			_aRecent narrative fiction and film increasingly exploit, explore and thematize the embodied mind, revealing the tenacity of a certain brand of humanism. The presence of narratively based concepts of personal identity even in texts which explore posthuman possibilities is strong proof that our basic understanding of what it means to be human has, despite appearances, remained mostly unchanged. This is so even though our perception of time has been greatly modified by the same technology which both interrupts and allows for the rearrangement of our experience of time at a rate and a level of ease which, until recently, had never been possible. Basing his views on a long line of philosophers and literary theorists such as Paul Ricoeur, Daniel Dennett and Francisco Varela, Escobar maintains in The Persistence of the Human that narrative plays an essential role in the process of constituting and maintaining a sense of self. It is narrative’s effect on the embodied mind which gives it such force. Narrative projects us into possible spaces, shaping a temporary corporeality termed the “meta-body,” a hybrid shared by the lived body and an imagined corporeal sense. The meta-body is a secondary embodiment that we inhabit for however long our narrative immersion lasts – something which, in today’s world, may be a question of milliseconds or hours. The more agreeable the meta-body is, the less happy we are upon being abruptly removed from it, though the return is essential. We want to be able to slip back and forth between this secondary embodiment and that of our lived body; each move entails both forgetting and remembering different subject positions (loss and recuperation being salient themes in the works which highlight this process). The negotiation of the transfer between these states is shaped by culture and technology and this is something which is precisely in flux now as multiple, ephemeral narrative immersion experiences are created by the different screens we come into contact with.
588			_aDescription based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 20, 2016).
650		0	_aIdentity (Psychology) in literature.
650		0	_aIdentity (Psychology) in motion pictures.
650		0	_aSelf-perception in literature.
650		0	_aSelf-perception in motion pictures.
650		0	_aHuman body in literature.
650		0	_aHuman body in motion pictures.
650		7	_aHuman body in literature. _2fast
650		7	_aHuman body in motion pictures. _2fast
650		7	_aIdentity (Psychology) in literature. _2fast
650		7	_aIdentity (Psychology) in motion pictures. _2fast
650		7	_aSelf-perception in literature. _2fast
650		7	_aSelf-perception in motion pictures. _2fast
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aEscobar, Matthew, author. _tPersistence of the human _dLeiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2016] _z9789004323629 _w(DLC) 2016029178
830		0	_aConsciousness, Literature and the Arts _v48.
830		0	_aLiterature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2016, ISBN: 9789004303928.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004323674
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