Pioneers a rich new scholarly approach of applying kensic intelligence theories to Renaissance texts
Presents a range of Renaissance writers and thinkers including Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Scève
Utilizes theories of psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, and literary analysis

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Kathryn Banks is Associate Professor of French at Durham University, UK. She is the author of Cosmos and Image in the Renaissance (2008) and has published essays on Rabelais, sixteenth-century poets, apocalyptic writing, Chrétien de Troyes, and cognitive approaches to literature. She was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2013.

Timothy Chesters is University Lecturer in Sixteenth-Century French Studies and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Ghost Stories in Late Renaissance France: Walking by Night (2011). He has also published on Rabelais, Ronsard, Montaigne, and Flaubert, and on cognitive approaches to literature.

Inhalt

.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Chiastic Cognition: Kinesic Intelligence Between the Reflective and the Pre-Reflective in Montaigne and Scève.- 3 Turning Toward the Beloved (Virgil, Petrarch, Scève).- 4 Scève's Denominal Verbs.- 4 Metaphor, Lexicography, and Rabelais's Prologue to Gargantua.- 4 The Gunpowder Revolution in Literature: Early Modern Wounds in Folengo and Rabelais.- 6 The Finger in the Eye: Jacques Duval's Traité des Hermaphrodits (1612).- 7 Exchanging Hands in Titus Andronicus.- 8 Cabin'd, Cribb'ed, Confin'd: Images of Thwarted Motion in Macbeth.- 9 Shakespeare's Vital Signs.- 10 Kinesic Intelligence on the Early Modern English Stage.- 11 Afterword: How Do Audiences Act?.