Shakespeare and Consciousness
This book examines how early modern and recently emerging theories of consciousness and cognitive science help us to re-imagine our engagements with Shakespeare in text and performance. Papers investigate the connections between states of mind, emotion, a
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Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
Series Editors Bruce McConachie Department of Theatre Arts University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Blakey Vermeule Department of English Stanford University Stanford, California, USA
This series offers cognitive approaches to understanding perception, emotions, imagination, meaning-making, and the many other activities that constitute both the production and reception of literary texts and embodied performances. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14903
Paul Budra • Clifford Werier Editors
Shakespeare and Consciousness
Editors Paul Budra Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Clifford Werier Mount Royal University Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance ISBN 978-1-137-59671-0 ISBN 978-1-137-59541-6 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-59541-6
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For my brother, David Budra PB For my wife, Sabrina Reed CW
SERIES EDITORS’ PREFACE
Noam Chomsky started a revolution in human self-understanding and reshaped the intellectual landscape to this day by showing how all languages have deep features in common. Gone—or least retreating—is the idea that the mind is a blank slate. In its wake, fierce debates have broken out about what the mind is and how it works. At stake are some of the most urgent questions facing researchers today: questions about the relationship between brain, mind, and culture; about how human universals express themselves in individual minds and lives; about reason, consciousness, and th
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