Memory and Intertextuality in Renaissance Literature

Raphael Lyne (University of Cambridge)

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Cambridge University Press
11 February 2016

Literary theory; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Memory

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.

By: Raphael Lyne (University of Cambridge)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 158mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 510g
ISBN: 9781107083448
ISBN 10: 1107083443
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 11 February 2016
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Raphael Lyne is a Reader in Renaissance Literature and a Fellow and Director of Studies at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. He is the author of Shakespeare, Rhetoric and Cognition (Cambridge, 2011), Shakespeare's Late Work (2007) and Ovid's Changing Worlds (2001).

Reviews for Memory and Intertextuality in Renaissance Literature

'Lyne approaches memory as an elastic metaphor. Early modern memory culture adheres to no single model of memory; neither does Lyne's argument ... by directly addressing specific sets of questions in cognitive science, Lyne provides a robust and humanistic response, an intertext as it were, to ongoing social-scientific research in memory ... in terms of its contribution to literary theory, this is the strongest work on early modern memory that I have read.' Lina Perkins Wilder, Connecticut College