| Memory and Intertextuality in Renaissance Literature Contributor(s): Lyne, Raphael (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107083443 ISBN-13: 9781107083448 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.935 |
| LCCN: 2015028160 |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6.26" W x 9.35" (1.12 lbs) 267 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book uses theories of memory derived from cognitive science to offer new ways of understanding how literary works remember other literary works. Using terms derived from psychology - implicit and explicit memory, interference and forgetting - Raphael Lyne shows how works by Renaissance writers such as Wyatt, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Milton interact with their sources. The poems and plays in question are themselves sources of insight into the workings of memory, sharing and anticipating some scientific categories in the process of their thinking. Lyne proposes a way forward for cognitive approaches to literature, in which both experiments and texts are valued as contributors to interdisciplinary questions. His book will interest researchers and upper-level students of renaissance literature and drama, Shakespeare studies, memory studies, and classical reception. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lyne, Raphael: - 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). |