Virginia Woolf's Brain: Mysticism, Literature and Neuroscience.
In this article the author discusses aspects of the fiction of Virginia Woolf. The central focus of the article is on the reconsideration Woolf's mysticism in light of her neurological circuitry, rather than in perception of her oddities and eccentricities. Among other issues the author considers th...
| Publicado en: | Dalhousie Review Vol. 89; no. 3; pp. 289 - 306 |
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| Sumario: | In this article the author discusses aspects of the fiction of Virginia Woolf. The central focus of the article is on the reconsideration Woolf's mysticism in light of her neurological circuitry, rather than in perception of her oddities and eccentricities. Among other issues the author considers the aspects of this issue covered in a book by Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroscientist who suffered a stroke at the age of thirty-seven. The author cites a character in "To The Lighthouse," a novel by Virginia Woolf. |
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