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Shakespeare and Consciousness (Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance)
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Description for Shakespeare and Consciousness (Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance)
Hardcover. Editor(s): Budra, Paul; Werier, Clifford. Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance. Num Pages: 321 pages, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSA; DSG; DSGS; JMR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 23. Weight in Grams: 549.
This book examines how early modern and recently emerging theories of consciousness and cognitive science help us to re-imagine our engagements with Shakespeare in text and performance. Papers investigate the connections between states of mind, emotion, and sensation that constitute consciousness and the conditions of reception in our past and present encounters with Shakespeare’s works. Acknowledging previous work on inwardness, self, self-consciousness, embodied self, emotions, character, and the mind-body problem, contributors consider consciousness from multiple new perspectives—as a phenomenological process, a materially determined product, a neurologically mediated reaction, or an internally synthesized identity—approaching Shakespeare’s plays and associated cultural practices in ... Read more
This book examines how early modern and recently emerging theories of consciousness and cognitive science help us to re-imagine our engagements with Shakespeare in text and performance. Papers investigate the connections between states of mind, emotion, and sensation that constitute consciousness and the conditions of reception in our past and present encounters with Shakespeare’s works. Acknowledging previous work on inwardness, self, self-consciousness, embodied self, emotions, character, and the mind-body problem, contributors consider consciousness from multiple new perspectives—as a phenomenological process, a materially determined product, a neurologically mediated reaction, or an internally synthesized identity—approaching Shakespeare’s plays and associated cultural practices in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
Number of Pages
307
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137596710
SKU
V9781137596710
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Ref
99-15
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Paul Budra is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is the author of A Mirror for Magistrates and the de Casibus Tradition and co-editor of the essay collections: Part Two: Reflections on the Sequel, Soldier Talk: Oral Narratives of the Vietnam War, and From Text to Txting: New Media in the Classroom. Clifford Werier is Professor of English ... Read more
Reviews for Shakespeare and Consciousness (Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance)
“Shakespeare and Consciousness, as the title suggests, explores issues pertaining to the works of William Shakespeare – his dramatic works, in this case – and consciousness, conceived in this study primarily through scientific theory. … this is definitely an interesting set of studies and there is much that can be drawn from it by those interested in applying theories of ... Read more