Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive TheoryPrinceton University Press, 20.02.2010 - 288 Seiten 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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... embodiment, which at least some cognitive scientists posit as the bases of 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 ...
... embodiment and subject formation. In The Tremulous Private Body, Francis Barker offered a Foucauldian argument that the early modern period saw a process through which the body was “confined, ignored, exscribed from discourse” in the ...
... embodiment that cannot be assimilated into discourse.23 Wilma Bucci provides a particularly useful synthesis of work by a number of cognitive scientists to summarize the position that “we can identify a prelinguistic stage in the ...
... embodiment of thought offers the possibility of a more radical materialism than does current Marxist theory, since it attempts to explore the literally material origins of the self.68 Cognitive theorists do recognize the problematic ...
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Inhalt
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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 |