Memory and Intertextuality in Renaissance Literature - Softcover

Lyne, Raphael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107443903 ISBN 13: 9781107443907

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107443903
• ISBN 13: 9781107443907
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270