Shakespearean sensations : experiencing literature in early modern England /
"This strong and timely collection provides fresh insights into how Shakespeare's plays and poems were understood to affect bodies, minds and emotions. Contemporary criticism has had surprisingly little to say about the early modern period's investment in imagining literature's i...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "This strong and timely collection provides fresh insights into how Shakespeare's plays and poems were understood to affect bodies, minds and emotions. Contemporary criticism has had surprisingly little to say about the early modern period's investment in imagining literature's impact on feeling. Shakespearean Sensations brings together scholarship from a range of well-known and new voices to address this fundamental gap. The book includes a comprehensive introduction by Katharine A. Craik and Tanya Pollard and comprises three sections focusing on sensations aroused in the plays; sensations evoked in the playhouse; and sensations found in the imaginative space of the poems. With dedicated essays on Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and Twelfth Night, the collection explores how seriously early modern writers took their relationship with their audiences and reveals new connections between early modern literary texts and the emotional and physiological experiences of theatregoers"-- |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 244 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-238) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781107306752 1107306752 9781107314504 110731450X 9781139235587 1139235583 1299009085 9781299009080 1107236894 9781107236899 1107301661 9781107301665 1107305829 9781107305823 1107312302 9781107312302 9781107559493 1107559499 |