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Caliban
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Charivari
Cognitive psychology
Cognitive science
Conflation
Consciousness
Descartes' Error
Deterritorialization
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Etymology
Externalization
False etymology
Family resemblance
Feste
Fortinbras
G. Wilson Knight
George Lakoff
Gertrude (Hamlet)
Gertrude and Claudius
Good and evil
Hamlet and Oedipus
Ideology
Irony
Jacques Derrida
Jonathan Dollimore
Jouissance
Judith Butler
King Lear
Laertes (Hamlet)
Linguistics
Malapropism
Malvolio
Mental space
Metaphor
Metaphor and metonymy
Metonymy
Negative capability
Obsessive love
Parody
Performative utterance
Pity
Playwright
Polonius
Polysemy
Postmodernism
Psychoanalysis
Pun
Reality principle
Revenge tragedy
Richard Tarlton
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Shakespearean comedy
Shame
Social status
Soliloquy
Sound effect
Stephen Greenblatt
Subjectivity
Sumptuary law
Superiority (short story)
Terence
The Comedy of Errors
The Gravediggers
The Other Hand
The Philosopher
Theory
Thought
Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare
Product details
- ISBN 9780691069920
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 05 Nov 2000
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 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. Crane's cognitive reading traces the complex interactions of cultural and cognitive determinants of meaning as they play themselves out in Shakespeare's texts. She shows how each play centers on a word or words conveying multiple meanings (such as "act," "pinch," "pregnant," "villain and clown"), and how each cluster has been shaped by early modern ideological formations.
The book also chronicles the playwright's developing response to the material conditions of subject formation in early modern England. Crane reveals that Shakespeare in his comedies first explored the social spaces within which the subject is formed, such as the home, class hierarchy, and romantic courtship. His later plays reveal a greater preoccupation with how the self is formed within the body, as the embodied mind seeks to make sense of and negotiate its physical and social environment.
Mary Thomas Crane is Associate Professor of English at Boston College. She is the author of Framing Authority: Sayings, Self, and Society in Sixteenth-Century England (Princeton) and coeditor, with Amy Boesky, of Form and Reform in Renaissance England: Essays in Honor of Barbara Kiefer Lewalski.
