Leaning from the human: Virginia woolf, olaf stapledon, and the challenge of behaviorism

Justin Prystash*

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研究成果: 雜誌貢獻期刊論文同行評審

摘要

This essay argues that Virginia Woolf’s Flush (1933) and Olaf Stapledon’s Sirius (1944)-novels that focus on the representation of canine consciousness-can be read as a riposte to the reductive materialism of John B. Watson’s behaviorism. Following in the wake of Watson’s ridicule of anthropomorphism and the “stream of consciousness” (indeed, any consciousness at all), Woolf and Stapledon embrace these techniques as they work to affirm the sexuality, spirituality, and rich mental experience of nonhuman animals. Behaviorism is revealed as a productive antagonist that played a vital role in the development of early twentieth-century literature and literary criticism.

原文英語
頁(從 - 到)433-457
頁數25
期刊Configurations
28
發行號4
DOIs
出版狀態已發佈 - 2020

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 健康(社會科學)
  • 哲學
  • 文學與文學理論

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