By E. Aston, B. Reynolds, Paul Cefalu
This assortment appears to be like on the growing to be rapprochement among modern idea and early sleek English literary-cultural reviews. With sections on posthumanism and cognitive technology, political theology, and rematerialism and function, the essays comprise fresh theoretical inquiries into new readings of early sleek texts.
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In Foucault or Butler) but now limiting top-down methodology. Such embedded realism has the ironic effects of objectifying and reifying the very systems that these critics otherwise portray quite persuasively as dynamic and cumulative proliferations of semantic complexity. Returning now to the etiological cognitive model I am proposing in this essay, let me attempt to demonstrate how an understanding of the history of a literary text’s semantic accumulations might render something of genuine critical value.
13. 14. 15. 16. 17. The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies Shakespeare (London: Routledge, 2006); for an example of ambience studies, see Bruce R. Smith, The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-Factor (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), as well as Smith’s recent The Key of Green: Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009); for examples of the new materialism, see Jonathan Gil Harris, Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008); for a recent posthumanist assessment of the species difference in Shakespearean drama, see Laurie Shannon, ‘Poor, Bare, Forked: Animal Sovereignty, Human Negative Exceptionalism, and the Natural History of King Lear’, Shakespeare Quarterly 60:2 (2009), 168–196.
I will suggest how cognitive theory, inflected by an awareness of dynamic systems theory, helps us reformulate our understanding of such problems as being symptomatic of the brain/ mind’s own structuring mechanisms and those mechanisms’ complex parameters, citing the phenomenon of the semantic ‘conflation’ that critics describe with insight but lack the vocabulary to explain within a broader view of how knowledge itself is organized. Recent work on the economic contexts of The Merchant of Venice provides a case history for modeling the culturally constructive forces of cognition.