Shakespeare and Conceptual Blending - Cognition, Creativity, Criticism (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
Release date:	November 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Michael Booth
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	257
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-62186-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism Promotions
LSN:	3-319-62186-6
Barcode:	9783319621869

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