Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance: Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection

Fletcher, A.

Using Hamlet and a number of other popular and influential seventeenth-century tragedies as case-studies, this book shows how aesthetic experience can help organize the biological functions of our brains into adaptive social networks.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2011-03-15

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230111684

DOI: 10.1057/9780230118386

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 192