Memory and Intertextuality in Renaissance Literature
Cambridge University Press, 2/9/2016
EAN 9781107083448, ISBN10: 1107083443
Hardcover, 267 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm
Language: English
This book uses theories of memory derived from cognitive science to offer new ways of understanding how literary works remember other literary works. Using terms derived from psychology – implicit and explicit memory, interference and forgetting – Raphael Lyne shows how works by Renaissance writers such as Wyatt, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Milton interact with their sources. The poems and plays in question are themselves sources of insight into the workings of memory, sharing and anticipating some scientific categories in the process of their thinking. Lyne proposes a way forward for cognitive approaches to literature, in which both experiments and texts are valued as contributors to interdisciplinary questions. His book will interest researchers and upper-level students of renaissance literature and drama, Shakespeare studies, memory studies, and classical reception.
1. Introduction
Part I. Implicit and Explicit Poetic Memory
2. Defining the implicit and explicit poetic memories
3. Discovered purposes
Jonson and Milton
4. Moving between sources
Ovid and Erasmus in Shakespeare's Sonnets
Part II. Intertextuality, Forgetting and the Schema
5. Schema and fragment
6. Wyatt and Petrarch
7. Plutarch and Antony and Cleopatra
8. Jonson's Catiline
9. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.