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Word vs Image

Cognitive Hunger in Shakespeare’s England

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  • © 2007

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  1. Ellen Spolsky
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Word versus Image

    • Ellen Spolsky
    Pages 1-22

  3. Building Categories of Material Representation before the Reformation

    • Ellen Spolsky
    Pages 23-55

  4. Forbidding Images: With Good Reason

    • Ellen Spolsky
    Pages 56-83

  5. Building a Literate Mind

    • Ellen Spolsky
    Pages 84-117

  6. Category Mismatches and Grotesque Representation: Michelangelo’s Risen Christ and Shakespeare’s Cymbeline

    • Ellen Spolsky
    Pages 118-151

  7. Genre Categorization: Shakespeare’s Lucrece and Trying Again

    • Ellen Spolsky
    Pages 152-184

  8. Conclusion: Managing Cognitive Hunger

    • Ellen Spolsky
    Pages 185-193

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 194-240
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Arguing on recent cognitive evidence that reading a Bible is much more difficult for human brains than seeing images, this book exposes the depth and breadth of Protestant theologians' misunderstandings about how people could reform their spiritual lives - how they could literally change their minds.

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'Ellen Spolsky's book is a challenging invitation to "resist the familiar understanding" of old stories ... and to read/ "see in" T/texts new significations through ever different lenses.'

- The European Legacy

About the author

ELLEN SPOLSKY is a Professor of English at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She is a literary theorist with an appetite for biological theories such as cognitive cultural theory, iconotropism, performance theory, and even some aspects of evolutionary literary theory. Her books and essays have worked toward a sophisticated understanding of both the universal and historically local aspects of Renaissance art, poetry and drama.

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