Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive TheoryPrinceton University Press, 2010 M02 20 - 288 páginas Here Mary Thomas Crane considers the brain as a site where body and culture meet to form the subject and its expression in language. Taking Shakespeare as her case study, she boldly demonstrates the explanatory power of cognitive theory--a theory which argues that language is produced by a reciprocal interaction of body and environment, brain and culture, and which refocuses attention on the role of the author in the making of meaning. Crane reveals in Shakespeare's texts a web of structures and categories through which meaning is created. The approach yields fresh insights into a wide range of his plays, including The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, and The Tempest. |
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... argue that the “imaginative atmosphere” of Timon of Athens “seems to reflect the peculiar clarity and conscious mastery of the poet's mind.”2 Knight's sense that Shakespeare's mind was both clear and masterful represents the kind of ...
... argue that at least several of Shakespeare's plays experiment with different forms of polysemy and prototype effects in ways that leave traces of cognitive as well as ideological processes in the text. Further, I show how these traces ...
... argue, because assuming a “ghostly” author involves denying the presence of a material human body as a central participant in the “complex social practices” shaping the text.10 And if the presence of the author is denied or ...
... argues, “No matter what the physical facts of any given bodily function may be, that function can be understood and experienced only in terms of culturally available discourses,” so that “the interaction between bodily self-experience ...
... argues that modern critics (like seventeenth-century writers) “may be simultaneously protective of the singularity of an individual brain while fearing that a deeper understanding of its functions will reduce mental life to a biological ...
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3 | |
The Comedy of Errors | 36 |
Chapter 2 Theatrical Practice and the Ideologies of Status in As You Like It | 67 |
Suitable Suits and the Cognitive Space Between | 94 |
Chapter 4 Cognitive Hamlet and the Name of Action | 116 |
Chapter 5 Male Pregnancy and Cognitive Permeability in Measure for Measure | 156 |
Chapter 6 Sound and Space in The Tempest | 178 |
Notes | 211 |
Index | 257 |
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Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory Mary Thomas Crane Sin vista previa disponible - 2001 |
Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory Mary Thomas Crane Sin vista previa disponible - 2000 |