Shakespearean Neuroplay - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shakespearean Neuroplay write by A. Cook. This book was released on 2010-09-27. Shakespearean Neuroplay available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using Shakespeare's Hamlet as a test subject and cognitive linguistic theory of conceptual blending as a tool, Cook unravels the 'mirror held up to nature' at the center of Shakespeare's play and provides a methodology for applying cognitive science to the study of drama.
Shakespearean Neuroplay
Shakespearean Neuroplay - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shakespearean Neuroplay write by A. Cook. This book was released on 2010-09-27. Shakespearean Neuroplay available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using Shakespeare's Hamlet as a test subject and cognitive linguistic theory of conceptual blending as a tool, Cook unravels the 'mirror held up to nature' at the center of Shakespeare's play and provides a methodology for applying cognitive science to the study of drama.
Cognition, Mindreading, and Shakespeare's Characters
Cognition, Mindreading, and Shakespeare's Characters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cognition, Mindreading, and Shakespeare's Characters write by Nicholas R. Helms. This book was released on 2019-01-16. Cognition, Mindreading, and Shakespeare's Characters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cognition, Mindreading, and Shakespeare's Characters brings cognitive science to Shakespeare, applying contemporary theories of mindreading to Shakespeare’s construction of character. Building on the work of the philosopher Alvin Goldman and cognitive literary critics such as Bruce McConachie and Lisa Zunshine, Nicholas Helms uses the language of mindreading to analyze inference and imagination throughout Shakespeare’s plays, dwelling at length on misread minds in King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare manipulates the mechanics of misreading to cultivate an early modern audience of adept mindreaders, an audience that continues to contemplate the moral ramifications of Shakespeare’s characters even after leaving the playhouse. Using this cognitive literary approach, Helms reveals how misreading fuels Shakespeare’s enduring popular appeal and investigates the ways in which Shakespeare’s characters can both corroborate and challenge contemporary cognitive theories of the human mind.
Shakespeare’s Props
Shakespeare’s Props - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shakespeare’s Props write by Sophie Duncan. This book was released on 2019-01-30. Shakespeare’s Props available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cognitive approaches to drama have enriched our understanding of Early Modern playtexts, acting and spectatorship. This monograph is the first full-length study of Shakespeare’s props and their cognitive impact. Shakespeare’s most iconic props have become transhistorical, transnational metonyms for their plays: a strawberry-spotted handkerchief instantly recalls Othello; a skull Hamlet. One reason for stage properties’ neglect by cognitive theorists may be the longstanding tendency to conceptualise props as detachable body parts: instead, this monograph argues for props as detachable parts of the mind. Through props, Shakespeare’s characters offload, reveal and intervene in each other’s cognition, illuminating and extending their affect. Shakespeare’s props are neither static icons nor substitutes for the body, but volatile, malleable, and dangerously exposed extensions of his characters’ minds. Recognising them as such offers new readings of the plays, from the way memory becomes a weapon in Hamlet’s Elsinore, to the pleasures and perils of Early Modern gift culture in Othello. The monograph illuminates Shakespeare’s exploration of extended cognition, recollection and remembrance at a time when the growth of printing was forcing Renaissance culture to rethink the relationship between memory and the object. Readings in Shakespearean stage history reveal how props both carry audience affect and reveal cultural priorities: some accrue cultural memories, while others decay and are forgotten as detritus of the stage.
Shakespeare and Complexity Theory
Shakespeare and Complexity Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shakespeare and Complexity Theory write by Claire Hansen. This book was released on 2017-06-27. Shakespeare and Complexity Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shakespeare and Complexity Theory is the first book-length examination into how complexity theory may be incorporated within Shakespeare studies. The book demonstrates how complexity theory can illuminate our understanding of Shakespeare’s texts, early modern theatrical practices (from dance to co-authorship to stagecraft), pedagogy, and Shakespeare’s canonical place in contemporary culture. In its implementation of a scientific framework, this monograph taps into an area of increasing academic and research interest: the relationship between the sciences and the humanities.
