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T1 From Natural History to Neuroscience: Memory and Perception in A.S. Byatt¿s Fiction
A1 Hidalgo Andréu, Pilar
K1 literatura y ciencia
K1 consciencia y novela
K1 memoria
K1 A.S. Byatt
AB Although scientific ideas run through the whole of Byatt’s fiction, it is in her novella “MorphoEugenia” (1992) and in the last two titles in her quartet, Babel Tower (1996) and A Whis-tling Woman (2002), that questions such as sexual selection, the physiology of perceptionand the chemistry of memory come to the fore. The question of memory is addressed inscientific and non-scientific terms. Jacqueline Winwar tries to locate the electro-chemicalmoment of memory by training her snails to avoid certain stimuli and seek out others. Twopapers at the Body and Mind conference deal with the biology of memory. That memory isinseparable from history and perception is shown when Daniel Orton watches his daughterplay Perdita in The Winter’s Tale, and his intensely private memory of his dead wife toucheson the rebirth myth that Byatt had introduced in The Virgin in the Garden.
PB Universidad de La Laguna. Servicio de Publicaciones
SN 2530-8335
YR 2005
FD 2005
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 18-nov-2024