Lyne, Raphael. Memory and intertextuality in Renaissance literature

Folger bibliographic ID: 346106
Folger call number: PR428.M44 L95 2016
Folger holdings ID: 496896

"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"--

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

1. Introduction -- pt. I. Implicit and explicit poetic memory. 2. Implicit and explicit poetic memory ; 3. Discovered purposes: Jonson and Milton ; 4. Moving between sources: Ovid and Erasmus in Shakespeare's sonnets -- pt. II. Intertextuality, forgetting, and the Schema. 5. Schema and fragment ; 6. Wyatt remembering the forgotten Petrarch ; 7. Plutarch and Antony and Cleopatra ; 8. Jonson's Catiline ; 9. Conclusion

Extended title: Memory and intertextuality in Renaissance literature / Raphael Lyne

English literature Collective memory and literature Memory in literature Intertextuality Cognition in literature Historical criticism (Literature)

author: Lyne, Raphael