Shakespeare And Consciousness

Author : Paul Budra,Clifford Werier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137595416

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Shakespeare and Consciousness by Paul Budra,Clifford Werier Pdf

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.

Author : Catherine Belsey
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748632152

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Shakespeare in Theory and Practice by Catherine Belsey Pdf

In these essays, collected here for the first time, renowned critic Catherine Belsey puts theory to work in order to register Shakespeare's powers of seduction, together with his moment in history. Teasing out the meanings of the narrative poems, as well as some of the more familiar plays, she demonstrates the possibilities of an attention to textuality that also draws on the archive. A reading of the Sonnets, written specially for this book, analyses their intricate and ambivalent inscription of desire. Between them, these essays trace the progress of theory in the course of three decades, while a new introduction offers a narrative and analytical overview, from a participant's perspective, of some of its key implications. Written with verve and conviction, this book shows how texts can offer access to the dissonances of the past when theory finds an outcome in practice.

Author : Sanford Budick
Publisher : Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474493165

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Hazarding All by Sanford Budick Pdf

Demonstrates how theatre and theatricalisation serve as the indispensable means for creating a kind of consciousness that exits as an unmediated encounter with actuality.

Author : Scott Newstok
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780691227696

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How to Think Like Shakespeare by Scott Newstok Pdf

"This book offers a short, spirited defense of rhetoric and the liberal arts as catalysts for precision, invention, and empathy in today's world. The author, a professor of Shakespeare studies at a liberal arts college and a parent of school-age children, argues that high-stakes testing and a culture of assessment have altered how and what students are taught, as courses across the arts, humanities, and sciences increasingly are set aside to make room for joyless, mechanical reading and math instruction. Students have been robbed of a complete education, their imaginations stunted by this myopic focus on bare literacy and numeracy. Education is about thinking, Newstok argues, rather than the mastery of a set of rigidly defined skills, and the seemingly rigid pedagogy of the English Renaissance produced some of the most compelling and influential examples of liberated thinking. Each of the fourteen chapters explores an essential element of Shakespeare's world and work, aligns it with the ideas of other thinkers and writers in modern times, and suggests opportunities for further reading. Chapters on craft, technology, attention, freedom, and related topics combine past and present ideas about education to build a case for the value of the past, the pleasure of thinking, and the limitations of modern educational practices and prejudices"--

Author : Laurie Johnson,John Sutton,Evelyn Tribble
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134449217

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Embodied Cognition and Shakespeare's Theatre by Laurie Johnson,John Sutton,Evelyn Tribble Pdf

This collection considers issues that have emerged in Early Modern Studies in the past fifteen years relating to understandings of mind and body in Shakespeare’s world. Informed by The Body in Parts, the essays in this book respond also to the notion of an early modern ‘body-mind’ in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries are understood in terms of bodily parts and cognitive processes. What might the impact of such understandings be on our picture of Shakespeare’s theatre or on our histories of the early modern period, broadly speaking? This book provides a wide range of approaches to this challenge, covering histories of cognition, studies of early modern stage practices, textual studies, and historical phenomenology, as well as new cultural histories by some of the key proponents of this approach at the present time. Because of the breadth of material covered, full weight is given to issues that are hotly debated at the present time within Shakespeare Studies: presentist scholarship is presented alongside more historically-focused studies, for example, and phenomenological studies of material culture are included along with close readings of texts. What the contributors have in common is a refusal to read the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries either psychologically or materially; instead, these essays address a willingness to study early modern phenomena (like the Elizabethan stage) as manifesting an early modern belief in the embodiment of cognition.

Author : Prof. Hilton Hotema
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-18
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781786258014

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Man’s Higher Consciousness by Prof. Hilton Hotema Pdf

In this book, first published in 1962, Professor Hilton Hotema provides his insights into how we could all live longer by learning the body's simple requirements of breathing fresh air, avoiding animal flesh, banning any cooked food, and by gradually lessening the amount of food consumed. Hotema firmly believes that breathing fresh air and consuming organic fruits and natural organic liquids alone could extend our lives and also lays bare his secret that what kills at an early age is not the illusion of time, but rather overeating, breathing in toxic, unclean air, and elements such as electronic radiation, dirty electricity and medications. A must-read for any health-conscious individual.

Author : Daisy Aldan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1987-04-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0913152188

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Shakespeare and Spectator Consciousness by Daisy Aldan Pdf

Author : Jennifer Ann Bates
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438432434

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Hegel and Shakespeare on Moral Imagination by Jennifer Ann Bates Pdf

Study of self-consciousness in Hegel and Shakespeare.

Author : Ralph Berry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317370925

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Shakespeare and the Awareness of Audience by Ralph Berry Pdf

This book, first published in 1985, explores the consciousness and the experience of Shakespeare’s audience. First describing the stage’s physical impact, Ralph Berry then goes on to explore the social or tribal consciousness of the audience in certain plays. The title finishes by examining the masque – the salient form of the Jacobean theatre. This title will be of interest to students of literature and theatre studies.

Author : Harvey Birenbaum
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040990744

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The Art of Our Necessities by Harvey Birenbaum Pdf

This sequence of essays draws informally on phenomenology, archetypal psychology, and the philosophy of symbolic forms to interpret the reality that Shakespeare creates as his plays are realized in the imagination. The result is a compassionate and strongly felt reading of the major plays, analyzing their romance stylization and their ontology, illuminating in particular the mythic forms of comedy, history play, and (most extensively) tragedy. Close readings and humanistic commentaries show how the modern reader or theater-goer can relate to the plays authentically but with passion, insight, and an awakened sense of beauty.

Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393079845

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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Anniversary Edition) by Stephen Greenblatt Pdf

Named One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, reissued with a new afterword for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world’s greatest playwright.

Author : Nicholas R. Helms
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030035655

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Cognition, Mindreading, and Shakespeare's Characters by Nicholas R. Helms Pdf

Cognition, Mindreading, and Shakespeare's Characters brings cognitive science to Shakespeare, applying contemporary theories of mindreading to Shakespeare’s construction of character. Building on the work of the philosopher Alvin Goldman and cognitive literary critics such as Bruce McConachie and Lisa Zunshine, Nicholas Helms uses the language of mindreading to analyze inference and imagination throughout Shakespeare’s plays, dwelling at length on misread minds in King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare manipulates the mechanics of misreading to cultivate an early modern audience of adept mindreaders, an audience that continues to contemplate the moral ramifications of Shakespeare’s characters even after leaving the playhouse. Using this cognitive literary approach, Helms reveals how misreading fuels Shakespeare’s enduring popular appeal and investigates the ways in which Shakespeare’s characters can both corroborate and challenge contemporary cognitive theories of the human mind.

Author : Giulio J. Pertile
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810139206

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Feeling Faint by Giulio J. Pertile Pdf

Feeling Faint is a book about human consciousness in its most basic sense: the awareness, at any given moment, that we live and feel. Such awareness, it argues, is distinct from the categories of selfhood to which it is often assimilated, and can only be uncovered at the margins of first-person experience. What would it mean to be conscious without being a first person—to be conscious in the absence of a self? Such a phenomenon, subsequently obscured by the Enlightenment identification of consciousness and personal identity, is what we discover in scenes of swooning from the Renaissance: consciousness without self, consciousness reconceived as what Frederic Jameson calls "a registering apparatus for transformed states of being." Where the early modern period has often been seen in terms of the rise of self-aware subjectivity, Feeling Faint argues that swoons, faints, and trances allow us to conceive of Renaissance subjectivity in a different guise: as the capacity of the senses and passions to experience, regulate, and respond to their own activity without the intervention of first-person awareness. In readings of Renaissance authors ranging from Montaigne to Shakespeare, Pertile shows how self-loss affords embodied consciousness an experience of itself in a moment of intimate vitality which precedes awareness of specific objects or thoughts—an experience with which we are all familiar, and yet which is tantalizingly difficult to pin down.

Author : Paul Cefalu
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472521927

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Tragic Cognition in Shakespeare's Othello by Paul Cefalu Pdf

Paul Cefalu argues that Shakespearean characters raise timely questions about the relationship between cognition and consciousness and often defy our assumptions about “normal” cognition. The book will appeal to scholars and students interested in both the virtues and limitations of cognitive literary criticism.

Author : Julian Jaynes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780547527543

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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes Pdf

National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry