Memory and Intertextuality in Renaissance Literature

This book uses theories of memory derived from cognitive science to offer new ways of understanding how literary works remember other literary works.

List of contents

1. Introduction; Part I. Implicit and Explicit Poetic Memory: 2. Defining the implicit and explicit poetic memories; 3. Discovered purposes: Jonson and Milton; 4. Moving between sources: Ovid and Erasmus in Shakespeare's Sonnets; Part II. Intertextuality, Forgetting and the Schema: 5. Schema and fragment; 6. Wyatt and Petrarch; 7. Plutarch and Antony and Cleopatra; 8. Jonson's Catiline; 9. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Raphael Lyne is a Reader in Renaissance Literature and a Fellow and Director of Studies at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. He is the author of Shakespeare, Rhetoric and Cognition (Cambridge, 2011), Shakespeare's Late Work (2007) and Ovid's Changing Worlds (2001).

Summary

This book uses theories of memory from psychology and cognitive science to give a new account of intertextuality, focusing on the ways in which poems and plays remember their sources. Offering new insights into major early modern works, it will interest researchers of Renaissance literature and drama, Shakespeare studies, memory studies, and classical reception.

Product details

• Authors: Raphael Lyne, Raphael (University of Cambridge) Lyne, Lyne Raphael
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781107443907
• ISBN: 978-1-107-44390-7
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; memory, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800