GERM 42.08 Mind Reading: Media and the Brain (in English)
How do we know what someone else is thinking or feeling? How do we conceptualize how our own minds operate? We will look at representations of the mind and brain in a range of media, studying literary texts that deal thematically with physiognomic or psychoanalytic thought; innovations in narrative form that allowed for more direct access to the psyche; visual and filmic representations of the mind and brain; and recent empirical studies of literature. In English.