Memory and Intertextuality in Renaissance Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-107-44390-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

This book uses theories of memory derived from cognitive science to offer new ways of understanding how literary works remember other literary works. Using terms derived from psychology – implicit and explicit memory, interference and forgetting – Raphael Lyne shows how works by Renaissance writers such as Wyatt, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Milton interact with their sources. The poems and plays in question are themselves sources of insight into the workings of memory, sharing and anticipating some scientific categories in the process of their thinking. Lyne proposes a way forward for cognitive approaches to literature, in which both experiments and texts are valued as contributors to interdisciplinary questions. His book will interest researchers and upper-level students of renaissance literature and drama, Shakespeare studies, memory studies, and classical reception.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lyne, Raphael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Gedächtnis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; Part I. Implicit and Explicit Poetic Memory: 2. Defining the implicit and explicit poetic memories; 3. Discovered purposes: Jonson and Milton; 4. Moving between sources: Ovid and Erasmus in Shakespeare's Sonnets; Part II. Intertextuality, Forgetting and the Schema: 5. Schema and fragment; 6. Wyatt and Petrarch; 7. Plutarch and Antony and Cleopatra; 8. Jonson's Catiline; 9. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Lyne, Raphael
Raphael Lyne is a Reader in Renaissance Literature and a Fellow and Director of Studies at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. He is the author of Shakespeare, Rhetoric and Cognition (Cambridge, 2011), Shakespeare's Late Work (2007) and Ovid's Changing Worlds (2001).