Blind spots of knowledge in Shakespeare and his world : a conversation / edited by Subha Mukherji.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mukherji, Subha, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Series:

Studies in medieval and early modern culture ; 65.

Studies in medieval and early modern culture ; LII

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Hermeneutics--Writing skill.

Hermeneutics.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 213 pages : charts ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Kalamazoo : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, [2019]

Summary:

A "blind spot" suggests an obstructed view, or partisan perception, or a localized lack of understanding. Just as the brain "reads" the "blind spot" of the visual field by a curious process of readjustment, Shakespearean drama disorients us with moments of unmastered and unmasterable knowledge, recasting the way we see, know and think about knowing. Focusing on such moments of apparent obscurity, this volume puts methods and motives of knowing under the spotlight, and responds both to inscribed acts of blind-sighting, and to the text or action blind-sighting the reader or spectator. While tracing the hermeneutic yield of such occlusion is its main conceptual aim, it also embodies a methodological innovation: structured as an internal dialogue, it aims to capture, and stake out a place for, a processive intellectual energy that enables a distinctive way of knowing in academic life; and to translate a sense of intellectual "community" into print.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Essays and Responses

1.Baffling Terms / Adam Zucker

Baffling Comedy, Baffling Ourselves: A Response to Adam Zucker / Stephen Spiess

Knowing Games: A Response to Adam Zucker / Subha Mukherji

2.Shakespeare's Nuts: The Blind Spots of the Edible Contact Zone / Jonathan Gil Harris

Flying Blind, Going Nuts: A Response to Jonathan Gil Harris / Subha Mukherji

3.Eyes Wide Shut: Seeing and Knowing in Othello / Supriya Chaudhuri

Seeing Blindness: A Response to Supriya Chaudhuri / Jonathan Gil Harris

Towards an Epistemology of the Stage? A Response to Supriya Chaudhuri / Stephen Spiess

4.What Emilia Knew: Shakespeare Reads James / Aveek Sen

Minding Shakespeare's Gaps: A Response to Aveek Sen / Tanya Pollard

Darkness Visible: A Response to Aveek Sen / Subha Mukherji

5.Knowing Kin and Kind in The Winter's Tale / Tanya Pollard

Unknowing Kind: A Response to Tanya Pollard / Zachary Lesser

Note continued: Difficult Loves: A Response to Tanya Pollard / Aveek Sen

6.The Epistemology of Violence in The Comedie of Errors / Stephen Spiess

What Does the Slave Know ? A Response to Stephen Spiess / Supriya Chaudhuri

Narrating Violence: A Response to Stephen Spiess / Adam Zucker

7.Broken English: A Dialogue / Jonathan Hope

"To sleep, maybe to dream" and Other Encounters with a Trained Machine / Michael Witmore

The Inheritance of Meat / Jonathan Hope

8.Conscience Doth Make Errors: The Blind Spot of Shakespearean Quotation / Zachary Lesser

On Not Knowing Shakespeare: A Response to Zachary Lesser / Tanya Pollard

The Food of Points: A Response to Zachary Lesser / Adam Zucker.

Notes:

Series numbering identified as [no.] 65 on publisher website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Current Copyright Fee: GBP0.00 0.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781580443654

1580443656

OCLC:

1089005747

Publisher Number:

99985068099