Movement in Renaissance Literature (eBook, PDF)

Exploring Kinesic Intelligence
Redaktion: Banks, Kathryn; Chesters, Timothy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Pioneers a rich new scholarly approach of applying kensic intelligence theories to Renaissance texts

Presents a range of Renaissance writers and thinkers including Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Scève

Utilizes theories of psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, and literary analysis

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 249
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319692005
• Artikelnr.: 52941424

Autorenporträt

Kathryn Banks is Associate Professor of French at Durham University, UK. She is the author of Cosmos and Image in the Renaissance (2008) and has published essays on Rabelais, sixteenth-century poets, apocalyptic writing, Chrétien de Troyes, and cognitive approaches to literature. She was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2013.    Timothy Chesters is University Lecturer in Sixteenth-Century French Studies and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Ghost Stories in Late Renaissance France: Walking by Night (2011). He has also published on Rabelais, Ronsard, Montaigne, and Flaubert, and on cognitive approaches to literature. 

Inhaltsangabe

.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Chiastic Cognition: Kinesic Intelligence Between the Reflective and the Pre-Reflective in Montaigne and Scève.- 3 Turning Toward the Beloved (Virgil, Petrarch, Scève).- 4 Scève's Denominal Verbs.- 4 Metaphor, Lexicography, and Rabelais's Prologue to Gargantua.- 4 The Gunpowder Revolution in Literature: Early Modern Wounds in Folengo and Rabelais.- 6 The Finger in the Eye: Jacques Duval's Traité des Hermaphrodits (1612).- 7 Exchanging Hands in Titus Andronicus.- 8 "Cabin'd, Cribb'ed, Confin'd": Images of Thwarted Motion in Macbeth.- 9 Shakespeare's Vital Signs.- 10 Kinesic Intelligence on the Early Modern English Stage.- 11 Afterword: How Do Audiences Act?.