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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... material text that we possess. In The Material Word: Some Theories of Language and Its Limits the Marxist linguists David Silverman and Brian Torode clearly articulate this problem. Silverman and Torode argue against the Saussurean ...
... material brain and our immaterial concepts of mind.33 Of course cognitive researchers are unable to understand completely even the simplest brain functions and so may seem very far indeed from explaining the processes that produced some ...
... material from both, I have found the second, with its focus on semantics and the cognitive bases of meaning, to be more useful for the interpretation of literary and cultural texts.38 Research on visual perception, memory, and category ...
... material roots in defining abstract words.57 We might even revisit Foucault's influential argument in The Order of Things that the early modern period experienced a shift from categorization based on analogy to a more “rational” system ...
... 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 “illusory: what we perceive depends ...
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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 |