Word vs Image
cognitive hunger in Shakespeare's England
- ISBN: 9780230006317
- Editorial: Palgrave MacMillan
- Fecha de la edición: 2006
- Lugar de la edición: Hampshire. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 23 cm
- Nº Pág.: 239
- Idiomas: Inglés
Arguing on recent cognitive evidence that reading a "Bible" is much more difficult for human brains than seeing images, this book exposes the depth and breadth of Protestant theologians' misunderstandings about how people could reform their spiritual lives - how they could literally change their minds. Shakespeare's achievement, accomplished for the English stage by a translation of the Italian grotesque, was to display for audiences battered by years of religious chaos and dread that a loving God was not only in heaven but in full control on earth: His providence was embodied and visible: you didn't have to read it.