Conceiving Desire in Lyly and Shakespeare

Metaphor, Cognition and Eros

Gillian Knoll (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2021
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-2853-8 (ISBN)

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To 'conceive' desire is to acknowledge the generative potential of the erotic imagination, its capacity to impart form and make meaning out of the most elusive experiences. 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. Metaphors, she argues, do more than narrate or express eros; they constitute erotic experience for Lyly's and Shakespeare's characters.

Gillian Knoll, Assistant Professor in English, Western Kentucky University.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.12.2021
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-2853-3 / 1474428533
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-2853-8 / 9781474428538
Zustand	Neuware