Shakespeare and Cognition: Thinking Fast and Slow Through Character

ISBN-13: 9781137543158 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 75 str.

Neema Parvini

Opis

Shakespeare and Cognition challenges orthodox approaches to Shakespeare by using recent psychological findings about human decision-making to analyse the unique characters that populate his plays.

Recenzje

"This is a work of undoubted brilliance, which makes several illuminating points ... ." (Elisabetta Tarantino, The Years Work in English Studies, April, 2017)

Spis treści

List of Tables Acknowledgements Introductory Note 1. Why Characters Matter in Shakespeare's Plays 2. Key Concepts: Dual-Process Theory, Heuristics and Biases 3. 'Teach me how to flatter you': Persuasion 4. Iago, Othello, and Trait Ascription Bias 5. 'And reason panders will': Another Look at Hamlet's Analysis Paralysis Concluding Note References Index

O autorze

Neema Parvini is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Surrey, UK. His previous books include Shakespeare's History Plays: Rethinking Historicism and Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism.