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Gillian Knoll - Conceiving Desire in Lyly and Shakespeare, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Conceiving Desire in Lyly and Shakespeare

Metaphor, Cognition and Eros

Av Gillian Knoll

Del i serien Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy

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To 'conceive' desire is to acknowledge the generative potential of the erotic imagination, its capacity to impart form and make meaning out of the most elusive experiences. Drawing from cognitive theories about the metaphorical nature of thought, Gillian Knoll traces the contours of three conceptual metaphors motion, space and creativity that shape desire in plays by John Lyly and William Shakespeare. Metaphors, she argues, do more than narrate or express eros; they constitute erotic experience for Lyly's and Shakespeare's characters.
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Gillian Knoll is Assistant Professor in English at Western Kentucky University. Her publications include “‘Binding the Void’: The Erotics of Place in Antony and Cleopatra.” Criticism 58.2 (Forthcoming, 2017) and “How to Make Love to the Moon: Intimacy and Erotic Distance in John Lyly’s Endymion.” Shakespeare Quarterly 65.2 (2014): 164-79.

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The first book to pair Shakespeare and Lyly, Gillian Knoll’s Conceiving Desire in Lyly and Shakespeare is a brilliant, wide-ranging application of cognitive and conceptual metaphor theory to show how cognition and eros come together – thrillingly, threateningly, creatively – in the experience of dramatic characters such as Lyly’s Endymion and Campaspe, or Shakespeare’s Othello, Kate and Petruchio, and Antony and Cleopatra. Using three domain metaphors of motion, space and creativity, and the insights of philosophers from Aristotle to Mark Lakoff and Gaston Bachelard, Knoll explores the capacity of erotic experience to "make love" for the cognitively aware selves caught in its toils. Reading Knoll is to find oneself in the presence of genuinely new interpretations not only of little-known plays like Lyly’s Endymion but also Shakespeare’s best-known comedies and tragedies. I will not soon forget Knoll’s dazzling exposition of Endymion’s undying love for the immensity of the moon.

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