Water and cognition in early modern English literature / edited by Nic Helms and Steve Mentz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Helms, Nic, editor.

Mentz, Steve, editor.

Series:

Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures.

Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Water in literature.

Cognition in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Water and cognition seem unrelated things, the one a physical environment and the other an intellectual process. The essays in this book show how bringing these two modes together revitalizes our understanding of both. Water and especially oceanic spaces have been central to recent trends in the environmental humanities and premodern ecocriticism. Cognition, including ideas about the 'extended mind' and distributed cognition, has also been important in early modern literary and cultural studies over the past few decades. This book aims to think 'water' and 'cognition' as distinct critical modes and also to combine them in what we term 'watery thinking'. <i>Water and Cognition</i> brings together cognitive science and ecocriticism to ask how the environment influences how humans think, and how they think about thinking. The collection explores how water - as element, as environment, and as part of our bodies - affects the way early modern and contemporary discourses understand cognition.

Contents:

Introduction: Watery Thinking: Minds and Water In and Beyond the Early Modern Period

Nic Helms and Steve Mentz

Part 1: Drowning on Stage

1. Muddying the Waters: Thinking Thinking in Watery Context with Hamlet

McKenna Rose

2. Ophelia with Spectator: Hamlet and Watery Cognition

Lianne Habinek

3. Monsters of the Deep: What Watery Dreams May Come in Shakespeare's Richard III

Tony Perrello

4. Stink or Swim: Knee-deep in Marlowe's Edward II

Myra E. Wright

Part 2: Fluid Metaphors

5. Richard of Gloucester's Elemental Thinking: Water and Sovereignty in Shakespeare's First Tetralogy

Benjamin Bertram

6. The Sea of the Mind in Early Modern Poetry

Douglas Clark

7. Tears, Rain and Shame: King Lear, Masculine Vulnerability and Environmental Crisis

Jennifer Hamilton

Part 3: Forms of Water

8. Flake: The Shapes of Snow in Early Modern Culture

Lowell Duckert

9. "No darkness but Ignorance": Thinking Foggily in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama

Gwilym Jones

10. Speaking Water and Seeping Memory in Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion

William Kerwin

Part 4: Submersive Tendencies

11. Estuarial Rage and Resistance in Pulter's "The Complaint of Thames"

Dyani Johns Taff

12. Jurisdiction: Oceanic Erasure and Indigenous Subjection in Dryden's Amboyna

Benjamin D. VanWagoner

13. Thinking with the Ocean as Decolonial Strategy: Memory, Loss and the Underwater Archive in Shakespeare's The Tempest

Sandra Young

Afterword: Thinking Water.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Apr 2024).

Includes bibliographical records and index.

ISBN:

1-04-078793-2

1-003-70944-3

1-04-079385-1

90-485-5760-7

9781003709442

OCLC:

1550455018