Shakespeare and Conceptual Blending
Cognition, Creativity, Criticism
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; interrogat…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-319-62187-6
- EAN: 9783319621876
- Produktnummer: 24888087
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 4'143 KB
Über den Autor
Michael Booth has taught English Literature at Oberlin College, USA and held both teaching and administrative positions at Harvard University, USA. He has been awarded a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship and a John Carter Brown Library research fellowship, and has published articles in Early Modern Culture and The Yale Journal of Criticism.
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