Cognition, mindreading, and Shakespeare's characters. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nicholas R. Helms.
• Authors: Helms, Nicholas R
• Contents: 1. The Mind's Construction: An Introduction to Mindreading in Shakespeare I: Mindreading in Shakespeare's Macbeth II: Overview of the Chapters 2. Reading the Mind: Cognitive Science and Close Reading I: Character Criticism and the Importance of Lady Macbeth's Children II: Contemporary Theories of Mindreading III: The Rape of Lucrece as a Primer in the Mind's Construction 3. Inferring the Mind: Parasites and the Breakdown of Inference in Othello I: Parasiting Levels of Intentionality II: Anxious Static in La Mandragola, Volpone, and The Duchess of Malfi III: Iago's Chain of Inference 4. Imagining the Mind: Empathy and Misreading in Much Ado About Nothing I. Epistemology of the Blush II: Imagination as Contagion III: Extended Mind and the Ecology of Emotion IV: Overconfidence in Empathy 5. Integrating Minds: Blending Methods in The King Is Alive and Twelfth Night I: Characters of the Desert in Kristian Levring's The King is Alive II: Conceiving Ambiguity in Twelfth Night 6. Finding the Frame: Inference in Romeo and Juliet I: Seeing Death on Shakespeare's Stage II: Spontaneous Generation as a Frame for Mindreading III: Decaying Matter and Cognitive Ecology IV: Thinking Through Corpses in Romeo and Juliet 7. Reading Incoherence: How Shakespeare Speaks Back to Cognitive Science I: The Glass Delusion as a Model for Transparency II: Hamlet's Finite Space of Solitary Confinement III: Opaque Melancholy in The Two Noble Kinsmen IV: Cognitive Science and Deficit Models of Disability V: Shakespeare's Use of Incoherence in King Lear VI: Balancing Inference and Imagination 8: Mindreading as Engagement: Active Spectators and 'The Strangers' Case'.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 822.33; Literature; Literature, Modern; Consciousness; Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory; Psychology -- Cognitive Psychology; Literary theory; Cognition & cognitive psychology; Literary Criticism -- Shakespeare; Shakespeare studies & criticism; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Literature-Philosophy; Characters; Criticism and interpretation; Psychology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030035655
• Related ISBNs: 9783030035648
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