The modernist mind extended: Samuel Beckett, his fiction and the extended mind theory
Manuscrítica: Revista de Crítica Genética September 29, 2015 Olga Beloborodova
This paper presents an on-going PhD project that is part of the effort to reassess the alleged “inward turn” (Kahler, 1973) in modernist literature and place modernist fictional minds within their fictional environments. Borrowed from the domain of cognitive science, the principle of “active externalism” in general and the Extended Mind Theory in particular form the theoretical framework of the...