Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive TheoryHere 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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... Ideologies of Status in As You Like It 36 67 94 Chapter 3 Twelfth Night: Suitable Suits and the Cognitive Space Between Chapter 4 Cognitive Hamlet and the Name of Action Chapter 5 Male Pregnancy and Cognitive Permeability in Measure for ...
... Ideologies of Status in As You Like It” in English Literary Renaissance 27 (1997): 361–92; an earlier version of chapter 5 appeared as “Male Pregnancy and Cognitive Permeability in Measure for Measure,” Shakespeare Quarterly 49 (1998): ...
... ideological processes in the text. Further, I show how these traces of cognitive process reveal not only the possibilities but also the limits of individual agency within a biological body and a cultural matrix. I suggest that cognitive ...
... bodily self-experience and its discursive realization ... takes place in and through culture or its more politically conceptualized cognate, ideology” (4). However, this new scrutiny of bodily experience 6 INTRODUCTION.
... ideological pressure is allowed for (even though that resistance too must be produced in an ideological context).”82 His focus on resistance to ideology seems overly simple from a cognitive perspective, where agency is a basic and ...
Contents
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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 |