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  title info:
    title: Cognition, Mindreading, and Shakespeare's Characters
  name:
    name part: Helms, Nicholas R.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 229 p. online resource.
  abstract: Cognition, Mindreading, and Shakespeare's Characters brings cognitive science to Shakespeare, applying contemporary theories of mindreading to Shakespeare's construction of character. Building on the work of the philosopher Alvin Goldman and cognitive literary critics such as Bruce McConachie and Lisa Zunshine, Nicholas Helms uses the language of mindreading to analyze inference and imagination throughout Shakespeare's plays, dwelling at length on misread minds in King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare manipulates the mechanics of misreading to cultivate an early modern audience of adept mindreaders, an audience that continues to contemplate the moral ramifications of Shakespeare's characters even after leaving the playhouse. Using this cognitive literary approach, Helms reveals how misreading fuels Shakespeare's enduring popular appeal and investigates the ways in which Shakespeare's characters can both corroborate and challenge contemporary cognitive theories of the human mind.
  table of contents: 1. The Mind's Construction: An Introduction to Mindreading in Shakespeare -- 2. Reading the Mind: Cognitive Science and Close Reading -- 3. Inferring the Mind: Parasites and the Breakdown of Inference in Othello -- 4. Imagining the Mind: Empathy and Misreading in Much Ado About Nothing­ -- 5. Integrating Minds: Blending Methods in The King Is Alive and Twelfth Night -- 6. Finding the Frame: Inference in Romeo and Juliet -- 7. Reading Incoherence: How Shakespeare Speaks Back to Cognitive Science -- 8. Mindreading as Engagement: Active Spectators and "The Strangers' Case". .
  note: by Nicholas R. Helms.
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Modern
  subject:
    topic: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
  subject:
    topic: Literature-Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Cognitive psychology
  subject:
    topic: Shakespeare
  subject:
    topic: Literary Theory
  subject:
    topic: Cognitive Psychology
  classification: PR2877-2879
  classification: 822.33
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
  identifier: 9783030035655
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03565-5
  record info:
    record creation date: 190116
    record change date: 20191023131257.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-03565-5