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Water and Cognition in Early Modern English Literature / ed. by Steve Mentz, Nicholas Helms.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Environmental Humanities in Pre-Modern Cultures ; 9Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (302 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048557608
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  • 820.9/003 23//eng/20240301eng
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments and Dedication -- Introduction : Watery Thinking: Minds and Water In and Beyond the Early Modern Period -- Part 1 Drowning on Stage -- 1. Muddying the Waters: Thinking Thinking in Watery Context with Hamlet -- 2. Ophelia with Spectator: Hamlet and Watery Cognition -- 3. Monsters of the Deep: What Watery Dreams May Come in Shakespeare’s Richard III -- 4. Stink or Swim: Knee-deep in Marlowe’s Edward II -- Part 2 Fluid Metaphors -- 5. Richard of Gloucester’s Elemental Thinking: Water and Sovereignty in Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy -- 6. The Sea of the Mind in Early Modern Poetry -- 7. Tears, Rain, and Shame : King Lear, Masculine Vulnerability, and Environmental Crisis -- Part 3 Forms of Water -- 8. Flake: The Shapes of Snow in Early Modern Culture -- 9. “No darkness but Ignorance” : Thinking Foggily in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama -- 10. Speaking Water and Seeping Memory in Michael Drayton’s Poly-Olbion -- Part 4 Submersive Tendencies -- 11. Estuarial Rage and Resistance in Pulter’s “The Complaint of Thames” -- 12. Jurisdiction : Oceanic Erasure and Indigenous Subjection in Dryden’s Amboyna -- 13. Thinking with the Ocean as Decolonial Strategy : Memory, Loss, and the Underwater Archive in Shakespeare’s The Tempest -- Afterword: Thinking Water -- Index
Summary: Water and cognition seem unrelated things, the one a physical environment and the other an intellectual process. The essays in this book show how bringing these two modes together revitalizes our understanding of both. Water and especially oceanic spaces have been central to recent trends in the environmental humanities and premodern ecocriticism. Cognition, including ideas about the “extended mind” and distributed cognition, has also been important in early modern literary and cultural studies over the past few decades. This book aims to think “water” and “cognition” as distinct critical modes and also to combine them in what we term “watery thinking.” Water and Cognition brings together cognitive science and ecocriticism to ask how the environment influences how humans think, and how they think about thinking. The collection explores how water — as element, as environment, and as part of our bodies — affects the way early modern and contemporary discourses understand cognition.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments and Dedication -- Introduction : Watery Thinking: Minds and Water In and Beyond the Early Modern Period -- Part 1 Drowning on Stage -- 1. Muddying the Waters: Thinking Thinking in Watery Context with Hamlet -- 2. Ophelia with Spectator: Hamlet and Watery Cognition -- 3. Monsters of the Deep: What Watery Dreams May Come in Shakespeare’s Richard III -- 4. Stink or Swim: Knee-deep in Marlowe’s Edward II -- Part 2 Fluid Metaphors -- 5. Richard of Gloucester’s Elemental Thinking: Water and Sovereignty in Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy -- 6. The Sea of the Mind in Early Modern Poetry -- 7. Tears, Rain, and Shame : King Lear, Masculine Vulnerability, and Environmental Crisis -- Part 3 Forms of Water -- 8. Flake: The Shapes of Snow in Early Modern Culture -- 9. “No darkness but Ignorance” : Thinking Foggily in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama -- 10. Speaking Water and Seeping Memory in Michael Drayton’s Poly-Olbion -- Part 4 Submersive Tendencies -- 11. Estuarial Rage and Resistance in Pulter’s “The Complaint of Thames” -- 12. Jurisdiction : Oceanic Erasure and Indigenous Subjection in Dryden’s Amboyna -- 13. Thinking with the Ocean as Decolonial Strategy : Memory, Loss, and the Underwater Archive in Shakespeare’s The Tempest -- Afterword: Thinking Water -- Index

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Water and cognition seem unrelated things, the one a physical environment and the other an intellectual process. The essays in this book show how bringing these two modes together revitalizes our understanding of both. Water and especially oceanic spaces have been central to recent trends in the environmental humanities and premodern ecocriticism. Cognition, including ideas about the “extended mind” and distributed cognition, has also been important in early modern literary and cultural studies over the past few decades. This book aims to think “water” and “cognition” as distinct critical modes and also to combine them in what we term “watery thinking.” Water and Cognition brings together cognitive science and ecocriticism to ask how the environment influences how humans think, and how they think about thinking. The collection explores how water — as element, as environment, and as part of our bodies — affects the way early modern and contemporary discourses understand cognition.

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