Minds, mapping minds, mapping minds University of Antwerp
Richard Powers's The Echo Maker (2006) has often been praised for its psychological realism. In this article, I focus on The Echo Maker's fictional minds to demonstrate how the novel appropriates several modernist and postmodernist themes: the instability of character, the constructed nature of the self, and a suspicion toward narrative. It does so by grounding its story in cognitive science. My approach is informed by cognitive narratology, in ...