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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501726569
035 _a(DE-B1597)503541
035 _a(OCoLC)1031428521
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aRoychoudhury, Suparna
_eautore
245 1 0 _aPhantasmatic Shakespeare :
_bImagination in the Age of Early Modern Science /
_cSuparna Roychoudhury.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©2018
300 _a1 online resource (248 p.) :
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Illustrations --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction: Theseus, Phantasia, and the Scientific Renaissance --
_tChapter 1. Between Heart and Eye Anatomies of Imagination in the Sonnets --
_tChapter 2. Children of Fancy Academic Idleness and Love’s Labor’s Lost --
_tChapter 3. Of Atoms, Air, and Insects: Mercutio’s Vain Fantasy --
_tChapter 4. Seeming to See: King Lear’s Mental Optics --
_tChapter 5. Melancholy, Ecstasy, Phantasma The Pathologies of Macbeth --
_tChapter 6. Chimeras Natural History and the Shapes of The Tempest --
_tEpilogue The Rude Fantasticals --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aRepresentations of the mind have a central place in Shakespeare’s artistic imagination, as we see in Bottom struggling to articulate his dream, Macbeth reaching for a dagger that is not there, and Prospero humbling his enemies with spectacular illusions. Phantasmatic Shakespeare examines the intersection between early modern literature and early modern understandings of the mind’s ability to perceive and imagine. Suparna Roychoudhury argues that Shakespeare’s portrayal of the imagination participates in sixteenth-century psychological discourse and reflects also how fields of anatomy, medicine, mathematics, and natural history jolted and reshaped conceptions of mentality. Although the new sciences did not displace the older psychology of phantasms, they inflected how Renaissance natural philosophers and physicians thought and wrote about the brain’s image-making faculty. The many hallucinations, illusions, and dreams scattered throughout Shakespeare’s works exploit this epistemological ferment, deriving their complexity from the ambiguities raised by early modern science.Phantasmatic Shakespeare considers aspects of imagination that were destabilized during Shakespeare’s period—its place in the brain; its legitimacy as a form of knowledge; its pathologies; its relation to matter, light, and nature—reading these in concert with canonical works such as King Lear, Macbeth, and The Tempest. Shakespeare, Roychoudhury shows, was influenced by paradigmatic epistemic shifts of his time, and he in turn demonstrated how the mysteries of cognition could be the subject of powerful art.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aCognition in literature.
650 0 _aImagination in literature.
650 0 _aImagination
_xHistory
_y16th century.
650 0 _aImagination
_xHistory
_y17th century.
650 0 _aLiterature and science
_zEngland
_xHistory
_y16th century.
650 0 _aLiterature and science
_zEngland
_xHistory
_y17th century.
650 0 _aPsychology in literature.
650 0 _aScience in literature.
650 4 _aHistory Of Science.
650 4 _aHistory.
650 4 _aLiterary Studies.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare.
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653 _aShakespeare, Renaissance theories of psychology, emerging fields of early modern science, imagination as a cognitive, exploits epistemological ferment.
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