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Shakespeare's Brain: Reading With Cognitive Theory

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I didn't know how I can apply contemporary critical theory into shakespeare's play until I read this book. There are so many criticism about Shakespeare that I cannot make my mind up how to study his play. LInguistics and psychology is the most interesting field to me. Many words Shakespeare used is introduced in this book. The author explains cognitive theory by using these words. That's amazing! He introduces and emphasizes that word fomation is created by emotion and social situation. Focusing on them, he created cognitive, philosophical, and psychological explaination of Shakespeare's.

At the first time, I can meet contemporary philosophers' theory such like Deleuze, Lacan, Kleine, etc. The field of this book is very extensive as well as micro-prospective. Its style is that the differences of some words between then and now age are introduced, and the author explains diffences between their consciousness and ours. Shakespeare examined words people used in various ways. The author is looking for the process