Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive TheoryPrinceton University Press, 20/02/2010 - 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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... attempting to use psychoanalysis to understand the mechanics of subject formation missing in the accounts of Foucault and Althusser (and reciprocally to use Foucault and Althusser to provide a critique of psychoanalysis), takes up the ...
... . Gerald Edelman's theory of “neuronal group selection” attempts to provide a neuroscientific model for the kind of “semantic bootstrapping” described by Lakoff, in which our embodied brains create meaning out 8 INTRODUCTION.
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... attempt such a summary at this point, when cognitive theorizing about these issues is provisional at best and when any such account must necessarily oversimplify complex issues, may seem foolish, I believe that it is important to ...
... attempts to explore the literally material origins of the self.68 Cognitive theorists do recognize the problematic nature of our perceptions of “reality,” acknowledging that what seems to be our direct perception of reality is in fact ...
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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 Pré-visualização indisponível - 2001 |
Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory Mary Thomas Crane Pré-visualização indisponível - 2000 |