Conceiving Desire in Lyly and Shakespeare : : Metaphor, Cognition and Eros / / Gillian Knoll.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Knoll, Gillian,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy : ECSSP
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: MOTION -- Introduction: The Physics and Metaphysics of Metaphor -- 1. The Erotic Potential of Idleness in Lyly’s Drama -- 2. The ‘Raging Motions’ of Eros on Shakespeare’s Stage -- PART II: SPACE -- Introduction: In Love -- 3. ‘A petty world of myself ’: Intimacy and Erotic Distance in Endymion -- 4. Binding the Void: The Erotics of Place in Antony and Cleopatra -- PART III: CREATIVITY -- Introduction: Erotic Subject, Object, Instrument -- 5. ‘Love’s Use’ in Campaspe -- 6. ‘You lie, in faith’: Making Marriage in The Taming of the Shrew -- Conclusion: Metaphorical Constraints: Making ‘frenzy . . . fine’ -- Bibliography -- Index