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Conceiving Desire in Lyly and Shakespeare

Metaphor, Cognition and Eros

Gillian Knoll author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Published:14th Dec '21

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To 'conceive' desire is to acknowledge the generative potential of the erotic imagination, its capacity to impart form and make meaning out of the most elusive experiences. Drawing from cognitive theories about the metaphorical nature of thought, Gillian Knoll traces the contours of three conceptual metaphors motion, space and creativity that shape desire in plays by John Lyly and William Shakespeare. Metaphors, she argues, do more than narrate or express eros; they constitute erotic experience for Lyly's and Shakespeare's characters.

ISBN: 9781474428538

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288 pages