Crane, Mary Thomas

Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory

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ISBN 13:: 9780691069920
author:: Crane, Mary Thomas
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Princeton University Press
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2000
Pages:: 288
Genre:: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Condition:: New
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Shakespeare's Brain Reading with Cognitive Theory by Mary Thomas Crane explores how language is produced by an interaction between body and environment, brain and culture. This approach offers fresh insights into Shakespeare's plays, including The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, and The Tempest. Crane reveals the complex interactions of cultural and cognitive determinants of meaning in Shakespeare's texts, tracing how words conveying multiple meanings shape each play. She examines how early modern ideological formations influence these meanings and how Shakespeare responds to the material conditions of subject formation in early modern England. Through her analysis, Crane shows how Shakespeare's comedies explore social spaces within which the subject is formed, such as the home, class hierarchy, and romantic courtship. Her later plays reveal a greater preoccupation with how the self is formed within the body, negotiating physical and social environment.

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