Word vs Image: Cognitive Hunger in Shakespeares England [Hardcover]

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.Preface: Images, Words and Grotesques in Shakespeare's England Word vs. Image Building Categories of Material Representation before the Reformation Forbidding Images: With Good Reason Building a Literate Mind Category Mismatches and Grotesque Genre: Shakespeare's Lucrece and Trying Again Managing Cognitive Hunger

'Ellen Spolsky's book is a challenging invitation to resist the familiar understanding of old stories ... and to read/ see in T/texts new significations through ever different lenses.'

- The European Legacy

ELLEN SPOLSKY is a Professor of English at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She is a literary theorist with an appetite for biological theories such as cognitive cultural theory, iconotropism, performance theory, and even some aspects of evolutionary literary theory. Her books and essays have worked toward a sophisticated understanding of both the universal and historically local aspects of Renaissance art, poetry and drama.