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Making sense of Shakespeare

"This book argues for the existence and deployment of non-visual imagination in the reading and viewing of Shakespeare. It seeks to save the imagination of Shakespeare from abstractness and restore such imagination to a literal concreteness of somatic sensory experience. Instead of considering "the body" from the outside in the manner of cultural critics, Frey considers the reader and viewer's body from the inside in the manner of subjective responders or some affective critics. He argues that Lear's "howl," for example, targets and rewards physical hearing, physical speaking, and their accompanying emotions as somatically connected to current or remembered sensations in mouth, throat, and lungs."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©1999
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Madison, N.J., ©1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc
210 pages ; 25 cm
9780838638316, 0838638317
41320136
Preface
Note on Shakespeare's Text
Introduction: Abstract and Concrete Senses in Shakespere
Part I: Sense-Reading and Resistance
Sense-Reading Shakespeare's Sounds
Sense-Reading Shakespeare's Nonvisual Images
Resistance to Shakespeare's Sense-Reading
Further Contexts of Resistance to Shakespearean Sense-Reading
Part II: Beyond Resistance to Sense-Reading
Working Beyond Resistance
Undermind Shakespeare: Sense-Reading as Self-Shaping and Play-Shaping
Practice
Sense-Reading in the Classroom
Concluclusion: Walking Westward
Notes
Works Cited
Index