The Rise of the Neuronovel, by Marco Roth

In a 2009 article entitled “The Rise of the Neuronovel,” the critic Marco Roth claimed that, in Anglo-American fiction, the workings of the mind had been replaced by the mechanics of the brain, and he dated the shift to the English writer Ian McEwan’s 1997 Enduring Love.

Roth attributed the rise of the neuronovel to the exhaustion of the linguistic turn in the humanities, the fall of psychoanalysis in the Anglo-American world, and the popularization of brain research and the accompanying neural turn.

Vidal, Fernando and Ortega, Francisco. Being Brains: Making the Cerebral Subject (Forms of Living)....

Young Critics: Marco Roth

Roth, Marco. 2009. “The Rise of the Neuronovel.” N+1 8 (19 October).