Umfang:
Online-Ressource (X, 229 p, online resource)
Ausgabe:
Springer eBook Collection. Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
ISBN:
9783030035655
Serie:
Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
Inhalt:
Cognition, Mindreading, and Shakespeare's Characters brings cognitive science to Shakespeare, applying contemporary theories of mindreading to Shakespeare’s construction of character. Building on the work of the philosopher Alvin Goldman and cognitive literary critics such as Bruce McConachie and Lisa Zunshine, Nicholas Helms uses the language of mindreading to analyze inference and imagination throughout Shakespeare’s plays, dwelling at length on misread minds in King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare manipulates the mechanics of misreading to cultivate an early modern audience of adept mindreaders, an audience that continues to contemplate the moral ramifications of Shakespeare’s characters even after leaving the playhouse. Using this cognitive literary approach, Helms reveals how misreading fuels Shakespeare’s enduring popular appeal and investigates the ways in which Shakespeare’s characters can both corroborate and challenge contemporary cognitive theories of the human mind
Inhalt:
1. The Mind’s Construction: An Introduction to Mindreading in Shakespeare -- 2. Reading the Mind: Cognitive Science and Close Reading -- 3. Inferring the Mind: Parasites and the Breakdown of Inference in Othello -- 4. Imagining the Mind: Empathy and Misreading in Much Ado About Nothing -- 5. Integrating Minds: Blending Methods in The King Is Alive and Twelfth Night -- 6. Finding the Frame: Inference in Romeo and Juliet -- 7. Reading Incoherence: How Shakespeare Speaks Back to Cognitive Science -- 8. Mindreading as Engagement: Active Spectators and "The Strangers' Case"
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783030035648
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783030035662
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Helms, Nicholas R. Cognition, mindreading, and Shakespeare's characters Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 ISBN 9783030035648
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Printed edition ISBN 9783030035648
Weitere Ausg.:
Printed edition ISBN 9783030035662
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Anglistik
Schlagwort(e):
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
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Kognitive Poetik
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Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
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Drama
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Literarische Gestalt
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Charakterisierung
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-03565-5
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