Gillian Knoll

Conceiving Desire in Lyly and Shakespeare

Metaphor, Cognition and Eros

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9781474428538
• ISBN-10: 1474428533
• Artikelnr.: 60022022

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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. Creativity
Introduction. 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