Overview
- Pioneers a rich new scholarly approach of applying kensic intelligence theories to Renaissance texts
- Presents a range of Renaissance writers and thinkers including Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Scève
- Utilizes theories of psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, and literary analysis
Part of the book series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance (CSLP)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Kinesic intelligence
- embodied cognition and Renaissance Literature
- "To His Coy Mistress"
- Montaigne's Essais I.26
- reflective and pre-reflective cognition
- Scève’s Délie
- Cognition in Early Modern French Literature
- neroscience and lexicography
- early modern warfare and kinesics
- Jacques Duval’s Traité des hermaphrodits
- kinesics of early modern erotic writing
- handshakes in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
- bodily confinement and Shakespeare's Macbeth
- Sensorimotor response in Shakesepare's plays
- kinesics of early modern actors
- illocutionary and performative language
- second-person neuroscience
- predictive processing
- effect of the Gunpowder Revolution on Literature
- Virgil’s Georgics
About this book
This book investigates how writers and readers of Renaissance literature deployed ‘kinesic intelligence’, a combination of pre-reflective bodily response and reflective interpretation. Through analyses of authors including Petrarch, Rabelais, and Shakespeare, the book explores how embodied cognition, historical context, and literary style interact to generate and shape responses to texts. It suggests that what was reborn in the Renaissance was partly a critical sense of the capacities and complexities of bodily movement. The linguistic ingenuity of humanism set bodies in motion in complex and paradoxical ways. Writers engaged anew with the embodied grounding of language, prompting readers to deploy sensorimotor attunement. Actors shaped their bodies according to kinesic intelligence molded by theatrical experience and skill, provoking audiences to respond to their most subtle movements. An approach grounded in kinesic intelligence enables us to re-examine metaphor, rhetoric, ethics, gender, and violence. The book will appeal to scholars and students of English, French, and Italian Renaissance literature and to researchers in the cognitive humanities, cognitive sciences, and theatre studies.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kathryn Banks is Associate Professor of French at Durham University, UK. She is the author of Cosmos and Image in the Renaissance (2008) and has published essays on Rabelais, sixteenth-century poets, apocalyptic writing, Chrétien de Troyes, and cognitive approaches to literature. She was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2013.
Timothy Chesters is University Lecturer in Sixteenth-Century French Studies and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Ghost Stories in Late Renaissance France: Walking by Night (2011). He has also published on Rabelais, Ronsard, Montaigne, and Flaubert, and on cognitive approaches to literature.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Movement in Renaissance Literature
Book Subtitle: Exploring Kinesic Intelligence
Editors: Kathryn Banks, Timothy Chesters
Series Title: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69200-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-69199-2Published: 26 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88729-6Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69200-5Published: 27 December 2017
Series ISSN: 2945-7297
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7300
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 249
Number of Illustrations: 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, British and Irish Literature, European Literature