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Description of  Conceiving Desire in Lyly and Shakespeare: Metaphor, Cognition and Eros (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy)

Explores the role of the mind in creating erotic experience on the early modern stage Advances a new critical methodology that credits the role of cognition in the experience of erotic desire, and pleasure itself Explores the philosophical underpinnings of erotic metaphors, drawing from ancient, early modern, and contemporary thinkers such as Aristotle, Giordano Bruno, Gaston Bachelard, Emmanuel Levinas, Kenneth Burke, George Lakoff, and Mark Turner Illuminates the dramatic vitality of philosophical and contemplative erotic speech Read more