Raphael Lyne

Shakespeare, Rhetoric and Cognition

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Produktbeschreibung

Lyne addresses a crucial Shakespearean question: why do characters in the grip of emotional crises deliver such extraordinarily beautiful speeches?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9781107007475
• ISBN-10: 110700747X
• Artikelnr.: 33352462

Autorenporträt

Raphael Lyne is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Murray Edwards College. He is the author of Ovid's Changing Worlds: English Metamorphoses, 1567-1632 (2001) and Shakespeare's Late Work (2007), as well as the editor (with Subha Mukherji) of Early Modern Tragicomedy (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: 'pity, like a naked new-born babe'
2. Metaphor, synecdoche and cognition
3. The drift towards cognition in rhetorical manuals
4. A Midsummer Night's Dream
5. Cymbeline
6. Othello
7. The Sonnets
Conclusion.