""Shakespeare's Brain" will inevitably be described as a
'cognitive' analysis because it pays attention to cognitive aspects
of meaning, but it is no less 'historical, ' 'theoretical, ' and
'nterpretive'. The book gives rich treatments of the historical
aspects of the plays and their production, the history of
criticism, and literary theory. To this richness it adds the
embodied mind of the writer writing, and the ways in which the
plays investigate what is involved in conceiving of oneself as an
embodied mind. Shakespeare's Brain offers old wine (Shakespeare) in
new bottles (cognitive science), giving us not only a picture of
the future of cognitive literary study but also some valuable new
interpretations of the plays."--Mark Turner, University of Maryland
"Mary Thomas Crane lays out with easy authority and admirable
lucidity what criticism might hope to gain from considering the
insights of cognitive neuroscience. Taking on a wide range of
experimental and theoretical cognitive science as well as the
beginnings of its absorption into historical and literary studies,
she proves to be a gifted explainer. Moreover, her 'adjustment' of
Saussure, Lacan, and Derrida has an unassuming brilliance, bold but
modestly teacherly, controversial without being
controversialist."--James Richardson, Princeton University
"The implications of Mary Thomas Crane's approach are manifold
and momentous, and she presents these in an introduction as
striking for its lucidity as for its significance. Crane's
scholarship is rich and extensive, and the book is beautifully
written."--Judith H. Anderson, Indiana University
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