Conceiving Desire in Lyly and Shakespeare

Metaphor, Cognition and Eros

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Av Gillian Knoll, Western Kentucky University) Knoll, Gillian (Assistant Professor in English

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Explores the role of the mind in creating erotic experience on the early modern stageAdvances a new critical methodology that credits the role of cognition in the experience of erotic desire, and pleasure itselfExplores the philosophical underpinnings of erotic metaphors, drawing from ancient, early modern, and contemporary thinkers such as Aristotle, Giordano Bruno, Gaston Bachelard, Emmanuel Levinas, Kenneth Burke, George Lakoff, and Mark TurnerIlluminates the dramatic vitality of philosophical and contemplative erotic speechProvides the first full-length study that pairs John Lyly’s and William Shakespeare’s drama, uncovering new forms of intimacy in their playsTo ‘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.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-03-03
Mått156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt584 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy
Antal sidor288
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474428521

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Acknowledgments Series Editor’s Preface Introduction Part I. Motion Introduction. The Physics and Metaphysics of Metaphor Chapter 1. The Erotic Potential of Idleness in Lyly’s Drama Chapter 2. The ‘Raging Motions’ of Eros on Shakespeare’s Stage Part II. Space Introduction. ‘In love.’ Chapter 3. ‘A petty world of myself’: Intimacy and Erotic Distance in Endymion Chapter 4. Binding the void: The Erotics of Place in Antony and Cleopatra Part III. CreativityIntroduction. Erotic Subject, Object, Instrument Chapter 5. Love’s Use in Campaspe Chapter 6. ‘You lie, in faith’: Making Marriage in The Taming of the Shrew Conclusion. Metaphorical Constraints: Making ‘frenzy… fine’Bibliography

The first book to pair Shakespeare and Lyly, Gillian Knoll’s Conceiving Desire in Lyly and Shakespeare is a brilliant, wide-ranging application of cognitive and conceptual metaphor theory to show how cognition and eros come together – thrillingly, threateningly, creatively – in the experience of dramatic characters such as Lyly’s Endymion and Campaspe, or Shakespeare’s Othello, Kate and Petruchio, and Antony and Cleopatra. Using three domain metaphors of motion, space and creativity, and the insights of philosophers from Aristotle to Mark Lakoff and Gaston Bachelard, Knoll explores the capacity of erotic experience to "make love" for the cognitively aware selves caught in its toils. Reading Knoll is to find oneself in the presence of genuinely new interpretations not only of little-known plays like Lyly’s Endymion but also Shakespeare’s best-known comedies and tragedies. I will not soon forget Knoll’s dazzling exposition of Endymion’s undying love for the immensity of the moon.