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1 Online-Ressource (xv, 337 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9783031550645
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3031550641
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Commonly used as a rallying cry for general approaches to literary studies, the imagination has until recently been overwritten with romantic and modernist inflections that impede our understanding of literatures intimate involvement in early modern cognition. To recover the pre-Cartesian imagination, this collection of essays takes a historicist approach by situating literary texts within the embodied and ensouled faculty system. Image-making and fantasizing were not autonomous activities but belonged to a greater cognitive ecosystem, which the volumes four sections reflect: The Visual Imagination, Sensory and Affective Imaginings, Artifice and the Mnemonic Imagination, and Higher Imaginings. Together they accentuate the imaginations interdependency and friction with other faculties. Ultimately, the volumes attention to the embodied imagination gives scholars new perspectives on literary and image production in the writings of Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and their contemporaries. Mark Kaethler is Academic Chair of Arts at Medicine Hat College in Medicine Hat, Canada. They work on research teams with the Map of Early Modern London and Linked Early Modern Drama Online at the University of Victoria, both of which have been funded by SSHRC grants. They are Book Reviews Editor for Early Theatre, and they are the author of Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama as well as a co-editor of Shakespeares Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools. Their work has appeared in Shakespeare, The London Journal, Early Theatre, Literature Compass, and several other journals and edited collections. Grant Williams is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. With William E. Engel, he has co-edited the essay collection The Shakespearean Death Arts (Palgrave, 2022), and, with Engel and Rory Loughnane, co-edited the collection Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England (Cambridge, 2022). With Donald Beecher, he is co-editor of Henry Chettles Kind-Hearts Dream and Piers Plainness: Two Pamphlets from the Elizabethan Book Trade (CRRS, 2022). He has co-authored two critical anthologies with Engel and Loughnane: The Death Arts in Renaissance England (Cambridge, 2022) and The Memory Arts in Renaissance England (Cambridge, 2016)
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Includes index
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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Imagination and Image in Premodern Faculty Psychology -- References -- Part I: The Visual Imagination -- Chapter 2: The Imagination in Distress: Amoret's Brain and the Busyrane Factor in Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book 3 -- References -- Chapter 3: "If all the world could have seen't": Imagination and the Unseen in The Winter's Tale -- Fantasie Is a Very Dangerous Thing -- Too Hot. Too Hot. -- Lest Your Fancy May Think Anon It Moves -- Some Spiritual Pageant -- References
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Chapter 4: The Iconoclastic Imagination: John Donne's Metaphysical Conceits -- Introduction -- The Visual Imagination: Metaphysical Conceits -- The Iconoclastic Imagination: Metaphysical Conceits -- References -- Part II: Sensory and Affective Imaginings -- Chapter 5: The Phenomenal Imagining Body in Shakespeare -- References -- Chapter 6: Infected Fancies and Penetrative Poetics in The Rape of Lucrece -- References -- Chapter 7: The "Imagination of Eating": The Role of the Imagination in Appetite Stimulation and Suppression -- References -- Part III: Artifice and the Mnemonic Imagination
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Chapter 8: Confronting Imagination in Langland, Spenser, and Bacon -- Imagining Imagination -- Confronting Imagination: Langland's Imaginatif -- Imagination's Work: Spenser's Phantastes -- Imagination Rectified: Bacon's New Atlantis -- References -- Chapter 9: The Feudal Art of Memory and the Treacherous Imagination: Coveting the Golden Phantasm in Mammon's House of Trade -- References -- Chapter 10: Seeing God Through Spectacles: Donne's "Engines" of the Imagination -- Donne's Gallery of the Soul -- The Gallery of the Sermon -- References
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Chapter 11: "A Work of Fancy": World-Making Imagination as an Art of Memory in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World -- Building a Memory Theater -- The Art of Memory as the Art of Storytelling -- Embodying and Enacting Memory Theater -- Cavendish's Ideal Courtier -- References -- Part IV: Higher Imaginings -- Chapter 12: Fantasy and the Imagined Music of the Spheres in Pericles -- References -- Chapter 13: Reconciliation and Recreation at the Meeting Place for Opposites: Revisiting Donne's Imagined Corners -- Cognition and Donne -- Virtual Communications
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Seeing and Knowing the Invisible in "Extasie" -- At the Limits of the Imagination -- Imagining the Space for Grace -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 14: "I think h'as knocked his brains out": Unhealthy Imagination in The Atheist's Tragedy -- References -- Chapter 15: From the Image of Christ to the Imagining of the Sovereign: Donne, Hobbes, and the Eclipse of Participation and Transformation -- Donne and the Image of Christ -- Hobbes and the Imagining of God and Sovereign -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
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Erscheint auch als ISBN 3031550633
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783031550638
Sprache:
Englisch
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