Blind Spots of Knowledge in Shakespeare and His World : : A Conversation / / ed. by Subha Mukherji.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Chaudhuri, Supriya,; Harris, Jonathan Gil,; Hope, Jonathan,; Lesser, Zachary,; Mukherji, Subha,; Pollard, Tanya,; Sen, Aveek,; Spiess, Stephen,; Witmore, Michael,; Zucker, Adam,
• HerausgeberIn: Mukherji, Subha,
• Place / Publishing House: Kalamazoo, MI : : Medieval Institute Publications, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture , 65
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (226 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Blind Spots of Knowledge in Shakespeare and His World --; Essays and Responses --; 1. Baffling Terms --; Baffling Comedy, Baffling Ourselves: A Response to Adam Zucker --; Knowing Games: A Response to Adam Zucker --; 2. Shakespeare’s Nuts: The Blind Spots of the Edible Contact Zone --; Flying Blind, Going Nuts: A Response to Jonathan Gil Harris --; 3. Eyes Wide Shut: Seeing and Knowing in Othello --; Seeing Blindness: A Response to Supriya Chaudhuri --; Towards an Epistemology of the Stage? A Response to Supriya Chaudhuri --; 4. What Emilia Knew: Shakespeare Reads James --; Minding Shakespeare’s Gaps: A Response to Aveek Sen --; Darkness Visible: A Response to Aveek Sen --; 5. Knowing Kin and Kind in The Winter’s Tale --; Unknowing Kind: A Response to Tanya Pollard --; Difficult Loves: A Response to Tanya Pollard --; 6. The Epistemology of Violence in The Comedie of Errors --; What Does the Slave Know? A Response to Stephen Spiess --; Narrating Violence: A Response to Stephen Spiess --; 7. Broken English: A Dialogue --; “To sleep, maybe to dream” and Other Encounters with a Trained Machine --; The Inheritance of Meat --; 8. Conscience Doth Make Errors: The Blind Spot of Shakespearean Quotation --; On Not Knowing Shakespeare: A Response to Zachary Lesser --; The Food of Points: A Response to Zachary Lesser --; Notes on Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110661996; 9783110762464; 9783110719567; 9783110610765; 9783110664232; 9783110610178; 9783110606195
• ISSN: 0085-6878
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110661996
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Subha Mukherji.

A "blind spot" suggests an obstructed view, or partisan perception, or a localized lack of understanding. Just as the brain "reads" the "blind spot" of the visual field by a curious process of readjustment, Shakespearean drama disorients us with moments of unmastered and unmasterable knowledge, recasting the way we see, know and think about knowing. Focusing on such moments of apparent obscurity, this volume puts methods and motives of knowing under the spotlight, and responds both to inscribed acts of blind-sighting, and to the text or action blind-sighting the reader or spectator. While tracing the hermeneutic yield of such occlusion is its main conceptual aim, it also embodies a methodological innovation: structured as an internal dialogue, it aims to capture, and stake out a place for, a processive intellectual energy that enables a distinctive way of knowing in academic life; and to translate a sense of intellectual "community" into print.