Shakespeare and Consciousness (Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance) - 9781137596710

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 ShakespeareÆs works. Acknowledging previous work on inwardness, self, self-consciousness, embodied self, emotions, character, and the mind-body problem, contributors consider consciousness from multiple new perspectivesùas a phenomenological process, a materially determined product, a neurologically mediated reaction, or an internally synthesized identityùapproaching ShakespeareÆs plays and associated cultural practices in surprising and innovative ways.

• | Author: Paul Budra, Clifford Werier
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Apr 20, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 321 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 1137596716
• | ISBN-13: 9781137596710