Shakespeare and Conceptual Blending: Cognition, Creativity, Criticism

✍ Scribed by Michael Booth (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 272
Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book shows how Shakespeare’s excellence as storyteller, wit and poet reflects the creative process of conceptual blending. Cognitive theory provides a wealth of new ideas that illuminate Shakespeare, even as he illuminates them, and the theory of blending, or conceptual integration, strikingly corroborates and amplifies both classic and current insights of literary criticism. This study explores how Shakespeare crafted his plots by fusing diverse story elements and compressing incidents to strengthen dramatic illusion; considers Shakespeare’s wit as involving sudden incongruities and a reckoning among differing points of view; interrogates how blending generates the “strange meaning” that distinguishes poetic expression; and situates the project in relation to other cognitive literary criticism. This book is of particular significance to scholars and students of Shakespeare and cognitive theory, as well as readers curious about how the mind works.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii
Introduction (Michael Booth)....Pages 1-14
Shakespeare’s Stories (Michael Booth)....Pages 15-69
Shakespeare’s Wit (Michael Booth)....Pages 71-113
Shakespeare’s Poetry (Michael Booth)....Pages 115-225
Criticism and the Blending Mind (Michael Booth)....Pages 227-247
Back Matter ....Pages 249-257

✦ Subjects

Theatre and Performance Studies

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