Word vs Image: Cognitive Hunger in Shakespeare’s England

en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 noi 2006

Arguing on recent cognitive evidence that reading a Bible is much more difficult for human brains than seeing images, this book exposes the depth and breadth of Protestant theologians' misunderstandings about how people could reform their spiritual lives - how they could literally change their minds.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780230006317
ISBN-10: 0230006310
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: XIV, 240 p. 18 illus.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:2007
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Preface: Images, Words and Grotesques in Shakespeare's England Word vs. Image Building Categories of Material Representation before the Reformation Forbidding Images: With Good Reason Building a Literate Mind Category Mismatches and Grotesque Genre: Shakespeare's Lucrece and Trying Again Managing Cognitive Hunger

Recenzii

'Ellen Spolsky's book is a challenging invitation to "resist the familiar understanding" of old stories ... and to read/ "see in" T/texts new significations through ever different lenses.'
- The European Legacy

Notă biografică

ELLEN SPOLSKY is a Professor of English at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She is a literary theorist with an appetite for biological theories such as cognitive cultural theory, iconotropism, performance theory, and even some aspects of evolutionary literary theory. Her books and essays have worked toward a sophisticated understanding of both the universal and historically local aspects of Renaissance art, poetry and drama.

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