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Genre/Form: | Case studies Études de cas |
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Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mary Thomas Crane |
ISBN: | 0691050872 9780691050874 0691069921 9780691069920 |
OCLC Number: | 59535239 |
Description: | x, 265 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: Shakespeare's Brain: Embodying the Author-Function -- Ch. 1. No Space Like Home: The Comedy of Errors -- Ch. 2. Theatrical Practice and the Ideologies of Status in As You Like It -- Ch. 3. Twelfth Night: Suitable Suits and the Cognitive Space Between -- Ch. 4. Cognitive Hamlet and the Name of Action -- Ch. 5. Male Pregnancy and Cognitive Permeability in Measure for Measure -- Ch. 6. Sound and Space in The Tempest. |
Responsibility: | Mary Thomas Crane. |
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"Shakespeare's Brain will inevitably be described as a 'cognitive' analysis because it pays attention to cognitive aspects of meaning, but it is no less 'historical,' 'theoretical,' and 'nterpretive'. The book gives rich treatments of the historical aspects of the plays and their production, the history of criticism, and literary theory. To this richness it adds the embodied mind of the writer writing, and the ways in which the plays investigate what is involved in conceiving of oneself as an embodied mind. Shakespeare's Brain offers old wine (Shakespeare) in new bottles (cognitive science), giving us not only a picture of the future of cognitive literary study but also some valuable new interpretations of the plays."-Mark Turner, University of Maryland "Mary Thomas Crane lays out with easy authority and admirable lucidity what criticism might hope to gain from considering the insights of cognitive neuroscience. Taking on a wide range of experimental and theoretical cognitive science as well as the beginnings of its absorption into historical and literary studies, she proves to be a gifted explainer. Moreover, her 'adjustment' of Saussure, Lacan, and Derrida has an unassuming brilliance, bold but modestly teacherly, controversial without being controversialist."-James Richardson, Princeton University "The implications of Mary Thomas Crane's approach are manifold and momentous, and she presents these in an introduction as striking for its lucidity as for its significance. Crane's scholarship is rich and extensive, and the book is beautifully written."-Judith H. Anderson, Indiana University Read more...


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