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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... body and a cultural matrix. I suggest that cognitive theory offers new and more sophisticated ways to conceive of ... body had little relevance to the texts of his plays. Following Foucault, they disperse the Shakespearean body into an ...
... body as a central participant in the “complex social practices” shaping the text.10 And if the presence of the author is denied or circumscribed in this way, then any discussion of the nature of the social practices involved must be ...
... body in the early modern period; however, the body and especially the brain of the author have been signally absent from such studies, largely because of the continuing influence of Foucault and Althusser on theories of embodiment and ...
... body where discourse is processed and therefore where discursive construction, if it occurs, must be located.17 This may well be because the formative theories of Foucault and Althusser provide little sense of the actual processes ...
... body does shape thought and language, that the early experiences of living in the body are the armature on which consciousness and thought are formed. The barrier to considering the brain of an author such as Shakespeare as one material ...
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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 |