Shakespeare's brain : reading with cognitive theory /

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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 demonstrates the explanatory power of cognitive theory--a theory which argues that language is produced by a reciprocal inter...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Crane, Mary Thomas, 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2001.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616
Consciousness in literature.
Cognition in literature.
Brain > Case studies.
Conscience dans la littérature.
Cognition dans la littérature.
Cerveau > Études de cas.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare.
DRAMA > Shakespeare.
Brain.
Case studies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Shakespeare's brain: embodying the author-function
  • No space like home: The Comedy of Errors
  • Theatrical practice and the ideologies of status in As You Like It
  • Twelfth Night: suitable suits and the cognitive space between
  • Cognitive Hamlet and the name of action
  • Male pregnancy and cognitive permeability in Measure for Measure
  • Sound and space in The Tempest.

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