Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive TheoryPrinceton University Press, 2010 M02 20 - 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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... to him. Current cognitive science offers the grounds for a number of theories of human subjectivity and language that are beginning to be reformulated in ways that make Introduction: Shakespeare's Brain: Embodying the Author-Function.
... human thought and language.5 I argue that in each of the plays examined here a network of words, connected in part by spatial metaphors, functions as a structural element that reflects in its outlines some of the patterns and ...
... human 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 ...
... human brain. As Judith Butler has remarked, Foucault “does not elaborate on the specific mechanisms of how the subject is formed in submission. Not only does the entire domain of the psyche remain largely unremarked in his theory, but ...
... human brains, using them to reproduce.”21 Deacon notes that “the relationship between language and people is symbiotic” and that “modern humans need the language parasite in order to flourish and reproduce, just as much as it needs humans ...
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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 Sin vista previa disponible - 2001 |
Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory Mary Thomas Crane Sin vista previa disponible - 2000 |