Close Reading Post-Human Minds: Textual Strategies and Effects

Examine how authors manipulate syntax, lexicon, and metaphor to represent non-human cognitive processes.

Analyze the use of mathematical, computational, or non-linguistic representational systems within narrative prose.

Evaluate narrative breakdowns, gaps, and unreadability as deliberate strategies for marking the limits of human comprehension.

Compare different authors' approaches to the same representational problem across multiple texts.