Shakespeare And Conceptual Blending: Cognition, Creativity, Criticism (cognitive Studies In Literature And Performance)
by Michael Booth /
2017 / English / PDF
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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.
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.