Phantasmatic Shakespeare : imagination in the age of early modern science /

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"Examines the intersection of early modern psychology and the history of science. It argues that Shakespeare was primarily interested in imagination as a cognitive rather than an aesthetic power"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Roychoudhury, Suparna (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Temas:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616
1500-1699
Literature and science > England > History > 16th century.
Literature and science > England > History > 17th century.
Science in literature.
Imagination in literature.
Psychology in literature.
Cognition in literature.
Littérature et sciences > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Littérature et sciences > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Sciences dans la littérature.
Psychologie dans la littérature.
Cognition dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare.
Cognition in literature
Imagination in literature
Literature and science
Psychology in literature
Science in literature
England
Shakespeare, Renaissance theories of psychology, emerging fields of early modern science, imagination as a cognitive, exploits epistemological ferment.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Theseus, phantasia, and the scientific renaissance
  • Between heart and eye : anatomies of imagination in the sonnets
  • Children of fancy : academic idleness and Love's labour's lost
  • Of atoms, air, and insects : Mercutio's "vain fantasy"
  • Seeming to see : King Lear's mental optics
  • Melancholy, ecstasy, phantasma : the pathologies of Macbeth
  • Chimeras : natural history and the shapes of The tempest
  • Epilogue : the rude fantasticals.

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