Shakespeare and Conceptual Blending [electronic resource] : Cognition, Creativity, Criticism / by Michael Booth.

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Shakespeare and Conceptual Blending [electronic resource] : Cognition, Creativity, Criticism / by Michael Booth.

9783319621876
3319621874
9783319621869
3319621866

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

English

1 online resource (XXII, 257 pages 13 illustrations) : online resource.

10.1007/978-3-319-62187-6 doi
9783319621869

PN2000-PN3307

822.33

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.

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Cognitive studies in literature and performance.

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