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Cognition, mindreading, and Shakespeare's characters /

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3030035654

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9783030035655

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3030035646

Erroneous ISBN

9783030035648

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Cognition, mindreading, and Shakespeare's characters /

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[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Nicholas R. Helms.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cham, Switzerland :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Palgrave Macmillan,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2019]

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1 online resource (233 pages)

Series Title

Cognitive studies in literature and performance

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Intro; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: The Mind's Construction: An Introduction to Mindreading in Shakespeare; 1.1 Mindreading in Shakespeare's Macbeth; 1.2 Overview of the Chapters; Bibliography; Chapter 2: Reading the Mind: Cognitive Science and Close Reading; 2.1 Character Criticism and the Importance of Lady Macbeth's Children; 2.2 Contemporary Theories of Mindreading; 2.3 The Rape of Lucrece as a Primer in the Mind's Construction; Bibliography; Chapter 3: Inferring the Mind: Parasites and the Breakdown of Inference in Othello; 3.1 Parasiting Levels of Intentionality.

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3.2 Anxious Static in La Mandragola, Volpone, and The Duchess of Malfi3.3 Iago's Chain of Inference; Bibliography; Chapter 4: Imagining the Mind: Empathy and Misreading in Much Ado About Nothing; 4.1 Epistemology of the Blush; 4.2 Imagination as Contagion; 4.3 Extended Mind and the Ecology of Emotion; 4.4 Overconfidence in Empathy; Bibliography; Chapter 5: Integrating Minds: Blending Methods in The King Is Alive and Twelfth Night; 5.1 Characters of the Desert in Kristian Levring's The King Is Alive; 5.2 Conceiving Ambiguity in Twelfth Night; Bibliography.

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7.5 Shakespeare's Use of Incoherence in King Lear7.6 Blending Inference and Imagination; Bibliography; Chapter 8: Mindreading as Engagement: Active Spectators and "The Strangers' Case"; Bibliography; Index.

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Chapter 6: Finding the Frame: Inference in Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet6.1 Seeing Death on Shakespeare's Stage; 6.2 Spontaneous Generation as a Frame for Mindreading; 6.3 Decaying Matter and Cognitive Ecology; 6.4 Thinking Through Corpses in Romeo and Juliet; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Reading Incoherence: How Shakespeare Speaks Back to Cognitive Science; 7.1 The Glass Delusion as a Model for Transparency; 7.2 Hamlet's Finite Space of Solitary Confinement; 7.3 Opaque Melancholy in The Two Noble Kinsmen; 7.4 Cognitive Science and Deficit Models of Disability.

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Cognition, Mindreading, and Shakespeare's Characters brings cognitive science to Shakespeare, applying contemporary theories of mindreading to Shakespeare's construction of character. Building on the work of the philosopher Alvin Goldman and cognitive literary critics such as Bruce McConachie and Lisa Zunshine, Nicholas Helms uses the language of mindreading to analyze inference and imagination throughout Shakespeare's plays, dwelling at length on misread minds in King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare manipulates the mechanics of misreading to cultivate an early modern audience of adept mindreaders, an audience that continues to contemplate the moral ramifications of Shakespeare's characters even after leaving the playhouse. Using this cognitive literary approach, Helms reveals how misreading fuels Shakespeare's enduring popular appeal and investigates the ways in which Shakespeare's characters can both corroborate and challenge contemporary cognitive theories of the human mind.

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Springer Nature

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com.springer.onix.9783030035655

Title

Cognition, Mindreading, and Shakespeare's Characters.

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9783030035648

Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Characters.

Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Psychology.

Shakespeare, William,1564-1616.

Characters and characteristics.

Cognition & cognitive psychology.

Consciousness.

Literary Criticism-- Semiotics & Theory.

Literary Criticism-- Shakespeare.

Literary theory.

Literature-- Philosophy.

Literature, Modern.

Literature.

Psychology-- Cognitive Psychology.

Psychology.

Shakespeare studies & criticism.

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Helms, Nicholas R.

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20200823075549.0

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