Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive TheoryPrinceton University Press, 20 feb. 2010 - 288 pagini 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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... mental experiences of perception, thought, and language) is produced by the brain and other bodily systems.4 A literary theory derived from cognitive science, then, offers new ways to locate in texts signs of their origin in a ...
... mental life to a biological phenomenon (albeit wondrous) and not a spiritual mystery.”20 For Foucault and Althusser, it is perhaps power itself, and the processes through which it takes discursive form and penetrates the subject, that ...
... mental function takes many forms; Roger Shepard and Jacqueline Metzler's work on the mental rotation of three-dimensional objects provides a particularly clear example. They found that subjects who were asked to determine whether ...
... mental imagery—all of which go beyond the literal mirroring, or representation, of external reality.”29 According to such a model, metaphor becomes not an aberration from or exception to primarily logical processes of meaning but a ...
... rules in ways that are analogous to digital computers and the one that argues that mental functions are shaped by their evolution within a human body and are not essentially in accordance with formal logic or analogous 10 INTRODUCTION.
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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 Nu există previzualizare disponibilă - 2001 |
Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory Mary Thomas Crane Nu există previzualizare disponibilă - 2000 |