Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory

by Mary Thomas Crane

Book Overview

Here Mary Thomas Crane considers the brain as a site where body and culture meet to form the subject and its expression in language. Taking Shakespeare as her case study, she boldly demonstrates the explanatory power of cognitive theory--a theory which argues that language is produced by a reciprocal interaction of body and environment, brain and culture, and which refocuses attention on the role of the author in the making of meaning. Crane reveals...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691069921
• ISBN13: 9780691069920
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"