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

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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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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

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