Introduction

The novel is an excellent genre for pushing the scientific imagination into new places.(Dennett 160)“‘So far the votes are two Asperger’s, one probable OCD, and one possible ADHD’” (97), says Theo Byrne, the first-person narrator of Richard Powers’s Bewilderment, as he ironically refers to the diff...

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الحاوية / القاعدة:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas,
المؤلف الرئيسي: Antolin, Pascale
التنسيق: Article ou chapitre numérique
اللغة:Anglais
منشور في: European journal of American studies 2021
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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الملخص:The novel is an excellent genre for pushing the scientific imagination into new places.(Dennett 160)“‘So far the votes are two Asperger’s, one probable OCD, and one possible ADHD’” (97), says Theo Byrne, the first-person narrator of Richard Powers’s Bewilderment, as he ironically refers to the different diagnoses given by doctors for his son’s eccentric cognitive dispositions. Bewilderment, published in September 2021, is Powers’s latest novel, and probably the last American neuronovel publi...