Movement in Renaissance Literature Exploring Kinesic Intelligence /

This book investigates how writers and readers of Renaissance literature deployed 'kinesic intelligence', a combination of pre-reflective bodily response and reflective interpretation. Through analyses of authors including Petrarch, Rabelais, and Shakespeare, the book explores how embodied...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
Subjects:
Literature, Modern.
British literature.
European literature.
ISBN:9783319692005
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Table of Contents:
  • -- 1 Introduction
  • 2 Chiastic Cognition: Kinesic Intelligence Between the Reflective and the Pre-Reflective in Montaigne and Scève
  • 3 Turning Toward the Beloved (Virgil, Petrarch, Scève)
  • 4 Scève's Denominal Verbs
  • 4 Metaphor, Lexicography, and Rabelais's Prologue to Gargantua
  • 4 The Gunpowder Revolution in Literature: Early Modern Wounds in Folengo and Rabelais
  • 6 The Finger in the Eye: Jacques Duval's Traité des Hermaphrodits (1612)
  • 7 Exchanging Hands in Titus Andronicus
  • 8 "Cabin'd, Cribb'ed, Confin'd": Images of Thwarted Motion in Macbeth
  • 9 Shakespeare's Vital Signs
  • 10 Kinesic Intelligence on the Early Modern English Stage
  • 11 Afterword: How Do Audiences Act?.

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