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Shakespeare and Cognition: Thinking Fast and Slow through Character
Dr Neema Parvini
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Description for Shakespeare and Cognition: Thinking Fast and Slow through Character
Hardback. Shakespeare and Cognition challenges orthodox approaches to Shakespeare by using recent psychological findings about human decision-making to analyse the unique characters that populate his plays. Num Pages: 96 pages, 6 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 15. Weight in Grams: 250.
Shakespeare and Cognition challenges orthodox approaches to Shakespeare by using recent psychological findings about human decision-making to analyse the unique characters that populate his plays. It aims to find a way to reconnect readers and watchers of Shakespeare's plays to the fundamental questions that first animated them. Why does Othello succumb so easily to Iago's manipulations? Why does Anne allow herself to be wooed by Richard III, the man who killed her husband and father? Why does Macbeth go from being a seemingly reasonable man to a cold-blooded killer? Why does Hamlet take so long to kill Claudius? This book ... Read more
Shakespeare and Cognition challenges orthodox approaches to Shakespeare by using recent psychological findings about human decision-making to analyse the unique characters that populate his plays. It aims to find a way to reconnect readers and watchers of Shakespeare's plays to the fundamental questions that first animated them. Why does Othello succumb so easily to Iago's manipulations? Why does Anne allow herself to be wooed by Richard III, the man who killed her husband and father? Why does Macbeth go from being a seemingly reasonable man to a cold-blooded killer? Why does Hamlet take so long to kill Claudius? This book ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
75
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137543158
SKU
V9781137543158
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Ref
99-15
About Dr Neema Parvini
Neema Parvini is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Surrey, UK. His previous books include Shakespeare's History Plays: Rethinking Historicism and Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism.
Reviews for Shakespeare and Cognition: Thinking Fast and Slow through Character
This is a work of undoubted brilliance, which makes several illuminating points ... . (Elisabetta Tarantino, The Years Work in English Studies, April, 2017)