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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... hand that physically “shaped” letters on the page, the author's eyes that scanned treatises on exorcism, the author's brain that directed the transfer of bits of them to his own texts, the author who “concentrated” these bits into an ...
... speculative mysticism” or mystification is the source of Stallybrass and de Grazia's “ghostly” genius and Greenblatt's invisible hand. But Silverman and Torode's assumption that “the brain is unavailable EMBODYING THE AUTHOR-FUNCTION 9.
... hand, cognitive theory, in Taylor's words, “strongly emphasizes the non-arbitrary, motivated nature of language structure.”44 From a cognitive perspective, language is shaped, or “motivated,” by its origins in the neural systems of a ...
... hand the neural messages necessary to record it on paper. The choice of individual words (my main concern in this book) would be shaped and constrained by stored prototypes (based on cultural knowledge), by the coordinate and ...
... hand, cognitive linguists such as Lakoff, Langacker, and Taylor argue that the meanings of words are always ultimately based on complex, “encyclopedic” knowledge of the culture in which they are produced.96 The research on perception of ...
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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 |