« Mary DeJong Obuchowski, MA'62, PhD'68 | Main | James Dale, '70 »
November 20, 2007
Arthur F. Kinney, PhD'63
Shakespeare and Cognition: Aristotle's Legacy and Shakespearean Drama, Routledge, 2006.
The book: Arthur F. Kinney examines the essential relationship between vision, knowledge and memory in Renaissance models of cognition as seen in Shakespeare's plays. Drawing on both Aristotle's Metaphysics and contemporary cognitive literary theory, he explores five key objects/images in Shakespeare's plays—crowns, bells, rings, graves and ghosts—that are not actually seen (or, in the case of the latter, not meant to be seen) but are central to the imagination of both the playwright and the playgoers.
The author: Arthur F. Kinney is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History and Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author or editor of more than 30 books as well as founding editor of the journal English Literary Renaissance. Besides the early modern period, he has published books on William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor and Dorothy Parker.
Posted by tobiaslw at November 20, 2007 11:54 AM