Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean StageUniversity of Chicago Press, 2010. nov. 15. - 288 oldal Though modern readers no longer believe in the four humors of Galenic naturalism—blood, choler, melancholy, and phlegm—early modern thought found in these bodily fluids key to explaining human emotions and behavior. In Humoring the Body, Gail Kern Paster proposes a new way to read the emotions of the early modern stage so that contemporary readers may recover some of the historical particularity in early modern expressions of emotional self-experience. Using notions drawn from humoral medical theory to untangle passages from important moral treatises, medical texts, natural histories, and major plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Paster identifies a historical phenomenology in the language of affect by reconciling the significance of the four humors as the language of embodied emotion. She urges modern readers to resist the influence of post-Cartesian abstraction and the disembodiment of human psychology lest they miss the body-mind connection that still existed for Shakespeare and his contemporaries and constrained them to think differently about how their emotions were embodied in a premodern world. |
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... relation to the four bodily humors of blood , choler , black bile , and phlegm — had a more than analogical relation to liquid states and forces of nature . In an important sense , the passions actually were liquid forces of nature ...
... relation to the four bodily humors of blood , choler , black bile , and phlegm — had a more than analogical relation to liquid states and forces of nature . In an important sense , the passions actually were liquid forces of nature ...
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... relationship expressed in this term as a psycho - physical causal one . An excess of the substance , black bile , in our system tends to bring on melancholy . We acknowledge a host of such relationships , so that this one is easily ...
... relationship expressed in this term as a psycho - physical causal one . An excess of the substance , black bile , in our system tends to bring on melancholy . We acknowledge a host of such relationships , so that this one is easily ...
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... relations between knowl- edge and control, whether of the self or others.”13 This preoccupation forms part of the ... relation to a topic as apparently univer- sal as the emotions—to specify the characteristics both of emotional ...
... relations between knowl- edge and control, whether of the self or others.”13 This preoccupation forms part of the ... relation to a topic as apparently univer- sal as the emotions—to specify the characteristics both of emotional ...
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... relation to the wind and of that relation's affective significance. Noting that the word for both breath and wind in classical Greek was pneuma, he writes that the Greeks were preoccupied with the wind because “the winds blowing around ...
... relation to the wind and of that relation's affective significance. Noting that the word for both breath and wind in classical Greek was pneuma, he writes that the Greeks were preoccupied with the wind because “the winds blowing around ...
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... relationship between outer and inner that he describes here is understood to be literal and physical. Its conse- quence ... relation of macrocosm to microcosm, of world to body, of the move- ments of wind or water to the movement of the ...
... relationship between outer and inner that he describes here is understood to be literal and physical. Its conse- quence ... relation of macrocosm to microcosm, of world to body, of the move- ments of wind or water to the movement of the ...
Tartalomjegyzék
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The Ecology of the Passions in Hamlet and Othello | 25 |
Shakespeares Maidens and the Caloric Economy | 77 |
Reading Shakespeares Psychological Materialism across the Species Barrier | 135 |
Male Passions and the Problem of Individuation | 189 |
Epilogue | 243 |
Bibliography | 247 |
Index | 261 |
Más kiadások - Összes megtekintése
Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage Gail Kern Paster Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2004 |
Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage Gail Kern Paster Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2014 |
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affective analogy anger animal appetite argues beasts becomes behavior blood bodily Body without Organs body’s brain Burton Cambridge University Press chapter choler Cleopatra cognitive cold comedy cosmology cultural describes Desdemona desire difference discourse disease Duchess of Malfi embodied emotional environment especially expression Falstaff fear female flesh fluids Folger Shakespeare Library function Galenic gender green sickness Hamlet hath heart heat Henry Peacham hierarchy horse human body humoral subject Iago imagined individual Jonson language London male Malvolio marriage means melancholy metaphorical metonymically mind mood narrative natural ODEP organs Othello passions Paster Petruchio physical physiological play play's psychological psychophysiological puddle Pyrochles Pyrrhus Pyrrhus’s quoted reciprocal recognize relation Renaissance Rosalind sense sexual Shakespeare Shylock sions social spirits suggest temper temperature texts things thinking Thomas Dekker Thomas Wright thou thought tion Topsell transformation tropes Twelfth Night vapors virgins Wellbred wind wolf women wrath Yellowhammer
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107. oldal - Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That I would all my pilgrimage dilate, Whereof by parcels...
70. oldal - Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : — But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either I must live or bear no life, The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up...
56. oldal - Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.
141. oldal - No, faith, not a jot ; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: As thus; Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust ; the dust is earth ; of earth we make loam : And why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel...
114. oldal - Ay, there's the point. — As, — to be bold with you,— Not to affect many proposed matches, Of her own clime, complexion, and degree ; Whereto, we see, in all things nature tends : Foh ! one may smell, in such, a will ' most rank, Foul disproportion, thoughts unnatural.
65. oldal - Twere now to be most happy ; for, I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute, That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
49. oldal - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
54. oldal - ... play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
107. oldal - A maiden never bold ; Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion Blush'd at herself : and she, — in spite of nature.