Movement in Renaissance Literature Exploring Kinesic Intelligence /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Banks, Kathryn (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Chesters, Timothy (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• Subjects: Literature, Modern.; British literature.; European literature.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; British and Irish Literature.; European Literature.

This book investigates how writers and readers of Renaissance literature deployed 'kinesic intelligence', a combination of pre-reflective bodily response and reflective interpretation. Through analyses of authors including Petrarch, Rabelais, and Shakespeare, the book explores how embodied...

Table of Contents:

• -- 1 Introduction
• 2 Chiastic Cognition: Kinesic Intelligence Between the Reflective and the Pre-Reflective in Montaigne and Scève
• 3 Turning Toward the Beloved (Virgil, Petrarch, Scève)
• 4 Scève's Denominal Verbs
• 4 Metaphor, Lexicography, and Rabelais's Prologue to Gargantua
• 4 The Gunpowder Revolution in Literature: Early Modern Wounds in Folengo and Rabelais
• 6 The Finger in the Eye: Jacques Duval's Traité des Hermaphrodits (1612)
• 7 Exchanging Hands in Titus Andronicus
• 8 "Cabin'd, Cribb'ed, Confin'd": Images of Thwarted Motion in Macbeth
• 9 Shakespeare's Vital Signs
• 10 Kinesic Intelligence on the Early Modern English Stage
• 11 Afterword: How Do Audiences Act?.