Shakespeare, Rhetoric and Cognition

Informationen zum Autor Raphael Lyne is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Murray Edwards College. He is the author of Ovid's Changing Worlds: English Metamorphoses, 1567–1632 (2001) and Shakespeare's Late Work (2007), as well as the editor (with Subha Mukherji) of Early Modern Tragicomedy (2007). Klappentext Lyne addresses a crucial Shakespearean question: why do characters in the grip of emotional crises deliver such extraordinarily beautiful speeches? 'Sections of this book work very well as thoughtful close readings of the way Shakespeare uses language to present his characters' thought in action and Lyne's central argument is surely right.' Peter Mack, The Review of English Studies Zusammenfassung Shakespeare's language can be analysed with technical vocabulary! but it can also seem spontaneous! strange and perplexing. This book provides readers with new ways of approaching Shakespeare's language! in particular the richly metaphorical speeches that occur at intensely dramatic moments in works including A Midsummer Night's Dream! Othello and Cymbeline. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: 'pity, like a naked new-born babe'; 2. Metaphor, synecdoche and cognition; 3. The drift towards cognition in rhetorical manuals; 4. A Midsummer Night's Dream; 5. Cymbeline; 6. Othello; 7. The Sonnets; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Raphael Lyne, Raphael (Dr Lyne, Lyne Raphael
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2011
• EAN: 9781107007475
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00747-5
• No. of pages: 276
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Language: history & general works, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Language: history and general works, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean