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On Theory, Rewriting Saussure, and Chomsky
In this chapter, we set forth some of the foundations for documenting the profound conceptual shortcomings of contemporary theory. This chapter also...
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Introduction: The Human Contexts of Literary and Performance Studies
In this book, we argue that much of contemporary literary theory is still predicated, at least implicitly, on outdated linguistic and psychological...
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Cognitive Literary Studies
This chapter provides an overview of selected contemporary published scholarly work in the area of literary studies that is grounded in a cognitive,...
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Development of the Brain
This chapter details how the brain develops as a constant interplay between biology and environment, reflecting one of this book’s main themes: the...
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The Brain
This chapter focuses on the evolution, structure, and function of the brain, as well as emotion and sexuality as related to the brain. We argue that...
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Evolution and Language
This chapter opens with an outline of Darwinian theory and the modern synthesis that provides the reigning paradigm for study in evolution, including...
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Nobody’s Business
This chapter argues that the persona of Nobody, a recurring presence on stage and in print at the turn of the seventeenth century, expressed the...
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The Renaissance Monkey
This chapter looks at Edward Topsell’s History of Four-footed Beasts (1607) and other contemporaneous natural historical writings on apes, in order...
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Introduction—Why Compare the Irish Renaissance with the Chinese Renaissance?
This chapter questions how the Irish Revival provided an alternative route to the modern for the Chinese May Fourth writers, bypassing discourses on...
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Introduction: Dutch Industry and English Identity
Early modern England and the United Provinces experienced an emulative rivalry between the Spanish Armada and the Glorious Revolution. The English...
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Restoring the Human Context to Literary and Performance Studies Voices in Everything
Restoring the Human Context to Literary and Performance Studiesargues that much of contemporary literary theory is still predicated, at least...
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“When You Are Gentle”: Emotional Exercitives and Affective Injustice in Taming of the Shrew
Shakespeare’s Taming of the ShrewShakespeare, William maps out in particularly stark terms, from its title onward, the early modern effort to control...
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Introduction
Old St Paul’s and Culture is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that looks predominantly at the culture of Old St Paul’s and its wider...
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Der Künstler und sein Werk: Arachne, Pygmalion, Daedalus, Marsyas, Orpheus
Eine ganze Reihe von Künstlern und Kunstwerken stehen im Zentrum einiger der bekanntesten und meistgelesenen Erzählungen der Metamorphosen: Daedalus,...
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Gender Controversy in Women’s Writing
The medieval and early Tudor gender controversy included female authors and voices that ranged from dignified defenses to shrewish ripostes,...
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London Early Modern Playhouses
This chapter offers a brief history of early modern London’s first permanent playhouses. The focus is on the interplay between urban policy and...
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Buying and Selling Books Around St Paul’s Cathedral: ‘Be Dishonest, and tell Lies’
This chapter on bookish spaces and interactions in and around St Paul’s opens the cathedral environs to new interpretive possibilities as a...
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Blyton and the 1950s
This chapter focuses on Enid Blyton’s consolidation of her career in the 1950s. It examines her success and her celebrity status but also looks at...
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Colonialism and Conversion in The Tempest
As in The Taming of the ShrewShakespeare, William, works of,conversional transformation, in analysis of conversion in The Tempest (c. 1610) explores...