Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive TheoryPrinceton University Press, 20. 2. 2010 - 288 strán (strany) 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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... concept of a total artist, “at the moment of creation complete unto himself,” and makes the expected move of rejecting him.12 He too rediscovers the “collective production of literary pleasure and interest,” locating that collectivity ...
... concepts “through image-schemas based on spatial structures.”24 Because most of our thought seems inextricably bound up with language, it may be hard to imagine that one can exist without the other. However, evidence for the existence ...
... concepts are similarly built up on these basic spatial schemas. Mandler provides as an example the basic image schemas of “containment” and “support,” which, she argues, allow the early acquisition of the prepositions in and on in ...
... concepts of mind.33 Of course cognitive researchers are unable to understand completely even the simplest brain functions and so may seem very far indeed from explaining the processes that produced some of the most complex texts ever ...
... concepts exist in the mind as visual models and also as discursive propositions, both developed from the preconceptual schemas described above.39 Cognitive scientists have suggested a number of ways in which structures of language ...
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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 |