How to think like Shakespeare : lessons from a renaissance education / Scott Newstok.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newstok, Scott L., 1973- Author.

Series:

Skills for Scholars

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William.

Thought and thinking--Study and teaching.

Thought and thinking.

Rhetoric, Renaissance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 185 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A lively and engaging guide to vital habits of mind that can help you think more deeply, write more effectively, and learn more joyfullyHow to Think like Shakespeare offers an enlightening and entertaining guide to the craft of thought—one that demonstrates what we've lost in education today, and how we might begin to recover it. In fourteen brief, lively chapters that draw from Shakespeare's world and works, and from other writers past and present, Scott Newstok distills vital habits of mind that can help you think more deeply, write more effectively, and learn more joyfully, in school or beyond.Challenging a host of today's questionable notions about education, Newstok shows how mental play emerges through work, creativity through imitation, autonomy through tradition, innovation through constraint, and freedom through discipline. It was these practices, and a conversation with the past—not a fruitless obsession with assessment—that nurtured a mind like Shakespeare's. And while few of us can hope to approach the genius of the Bard, we can all learn from the exercises that shaped him.Written in a friendly, conversational tone and brimming with insights, How to Think like Shakespeare enacts the thrill of thinking on every page, reviving timeless—and timely—ways to stretch your mind and hone your words.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

WHAT’S PAST IS PROLOGUE

1. OF THINKING

2. OF ENDS

3. OF CRAFT

4. OF FIT

5. OF PLACE

6. OF ATTENTION

7. OF TECHNOLOGY

8. OF IMITATION

9. OF EXERCISES

10. OF CONVERSATION

11. OF STOCK

12. OF CONSTRAINT

13. OF MAKING

14. OF FREEDOM

KINSMEN OF THE SHELF

THANKS AND THANKS

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2020)

ISBN:

9780691201580

0691201587

OCLC:

1238025645