Shakespeare and Conceptual Blending

Cognition, Creativity, Criticism

By:

Michael Booth

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

May 24th, 2018

Author

Michael Booth

Series

Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance

Pages

257

Edition

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

13 Illustrations, black and white; XXII, 257 p. 13 illus.

Dimensions

148x210x15

ISBN-13

9783319872513

Product ID

28816794

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