Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive TheoryPrinceton University Press, 20. veebr 2010 - 288 pages 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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... position that the body is a product of discourse and that the early modern experience of embodiment was constructed by the dominant classed and gendered discursive formations of the period. Jonathan Sawday, for instance, has argued that ...
... position that “we can identify a prelinguistic stage in the thought development of the human child” wherein, through “perceptual analysis” of sensory experiences in the world, a child forms concepts “through image-schemas based on ...
... position that “linguistic communication consists in the transmission of immaterial ideas or concepts from one person (speaker or writer) to another (hearer [sic] or listener) by means of material signs such as marks on paper or ...
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Contents
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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 |