Shakespeare and Consciousness

Shakespeare and Consciousness - Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance

1st ed. 2016

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This book examines how early modern and recently emerging theories of consciousness and cognitive science help us to re-imagine our engagements with Shakespeare in text and performance. Papers investigate the connections between states of mind, emotion, and sensation that constitute consciousness and the conditions of reception in our past and present encounters with Shakespeare's works. Acknowledging previous work on inwardness, self, self-consciousness, embodied self, emotions, character, and the mind-body problem, contributors consider consciousness from multiple new perspectives-as a phenomenological process, a materially determined product, a neurologically mediated reaction, or an internally synthesized identity-approaching Shakespeare's plays and associated cultural practices in surprising and innovative ways.

Book information

ISBN: 9781137596710
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
Edition: 1st ed. 2016
DEWEY: 822.33
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Weight: 5207g
Height: 210mm
Width: 148mm
Spine width: 24mm