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Informationen zum Autor Gillian Knoll is Assistant Professor in English at Western Kentucky University. Her publications include "'Binding the Void': The Erotics of Place in Antony and Cleopatra." Criticism 58.2 (Forthcoming, 2017) and "How to Make Love to the Moon: Intimacy and Erotic Distance in John Lyly's Endymion." Shakespeare Quarterly 65.2 (2014): 164-79. Klappentext Explores the role of the mind in creating erotic experience on the early modern stageTo 'conceive' desire is to acknowledge the generative potential of the erotic imagination, its capacity to impart form and make meaning out of the most elusive experiences. Drawing from cognitive theories about the metaphorical nature of thought, Gillian Knoll traces the contours of three conceptual metaphors - motion, space and creativity - that shape desire in plays by John Lyly and William Shakespeare. Metaphors, she argues, do more than narrate or express eros; they constitute erotic experience for Lyly's and Shakespeare's characters.Gillian Knoll is Assistant Professor of English at Western Kentucky University. Zusammenfassung Drawing from cognitive theories about the metaphorical nature of thought, Gillian Knoll traces the contours of three conceptual metaphors motion, space and creativity that shape desire in plays by John Lyly and William Shakespeare. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Series Editor's Preface Introduction Part I. Motion Introduction. The Physics and Metaphysics of Metaphor Chapter 1. The Erotic Potential of Idleness in Lyly's Drama Chapter 2. The 'Raging Motions' of Eros on Shakespeare's Stage Part II. Space Introduction. 'In love.' Chapter 3. 'A petty world of myself': Intimacy and Erotic Distance in Endymion Chapter 4. Binding the void: The Erotics of Place in Antony and Cleopatra Part III. CreativityIntroduction. Erotic Subject, Object, Instrument Chapter 5. Love's Use in Campaspe Chapter 6. 'You lie, in faith': Making Marriage in The Taming of the Shrew Conclusion. Metaphorical Constraints: Making 'frenzy... fine'Bibliography ...
