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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... 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 materially embodied mind/brain. From this ...
... thought is directly accessible,” and that they are not concrete, picturelike images but “dynamic analog representations of spatial relations or movements in space” that form a kind of “architecture” of thought: “its meaning resides in ...
... thought is fundamentally “imaginative, in that those concepts which are not directly grounded in experience employ metaphor, metonymy, and mental imagery—all of which go beyond the literal mirroring, or representation, of external ...
... thought that preceded the ascendancy of reason. Portraits of Shakespeare emphasize the large dome of his forehead, accentuated by a receding hairline; he must have had a brain. And if he did, and if sixteenth-century brains functioned ...
... thought offers the possibility of a more radical materialism than does current Marxist theory, since it attempts to explore the literally material origins of the self.68 Cognitive theorists do recognize the problematic nature of our ...
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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 |