Cognition, Mindreading, and Shakespeare's Characters

• Main Author: Helms, Nicholas R. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• Subjects: Literature, Modern.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.; Literature-Philosophy.; Cognitive psychology.; Shakespeare.; Literary Theory.; Cognitive Psychology.

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 McConac...

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". .