×
Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date.
For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now.

Bewitched and Bedeviled: A Cognitive Approach to Embodiment in Early English Possession
263
by K. UszkaloK. Uszkalo
109.99
In Stock
Overview
Narratives of possession have survived in early English medical and philosophical treatises. Using ideas derived from cognitive science, this study moves through the stages of possession and exorcism to describe how the social, religious, and medical were internalized to create the varied manifestations of demon possession in early modern England.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781137512246 |
---|---|
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US |
Publication date: | 07/01/2015 |
Series: | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance |
Edition description: | 2015 |
Pages: | 263 |
Product dimensions: | 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d) |
About the Author
Kirsten C. Uszkalo is the Editor of 'Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies in the Preternatural.' She received her PhD from the University of Alberta.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Grounding Rage Possession 1. Early Diagnostics 2. Contemporary Theories 3. Embodied Spirituality | Embodied Cognition 4. Performance | Contamination 5. Reconciliation | Dispossession | Exorcism Conclusion: Reproducing and Representing DemoniacsCustomer Reviews
Explore More Items
This study argues that late medieval English 'mystery plays' were about masculinity as much as ...
This study argues that late medieval English 'mystery plays' were about masculinity as much as
Christian theology, modes of devotion, or civic self-consciousness. Performed repeatedly by generations of merchants and craftsmen, these Biblical plays produced fantasies and anxieties of middle ...
This book explores how Cuba’s famously successful and inclusive education system has formed young Cubans’ ...
This book explores how Cuba’s famously successful and inclusive education system has formed young Cubans’
political, social, and moral identities in a country transfigured by new inequalities and moral compromises made in the name of survival. The author examines this ...
Geo-spatial identity and early Modern European drama come together in this study of how cultural ...
Geo-spatial identity and early Modern European drama come together in this study of how cultural
or political attachments are actively mediated through space. Matei-Chesnoiu traces the modulated representations of rivers, seas, mountains, and islands in sixteenth-century plays by Shakespeare, Jasper ...
This book redefines the plays and theatrical culture of the years 1625 to 1642 as ...
This book redefines the plays and theatrical culture of the years 1625 to 1642 as
something more than simply post-Shakespearean in character. Scholars reveal the drama's mixture of political engagement, urbane cosmopolitanism, and commercial ingenuity. They urge us to recalibrate ...
Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an ...
Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an
innovative approach to understanding maternity, genealogy and social identity as they are represented in popular literature in late-medieval England.
Famed and outspoken Russian poet, Maximilian Voloshin's notoriety has grown steadily since his slow release ...
Famed and outspoken Russian poet, Maximilian Voloshin's notoriety has grown steadily since his slow release
from Soviet censorship. For the first time, Landa showcases his vast poetic contributions, proving his words to be an overlooked solution both to the political ...
Migration of Rich Immigrants addresses flows of emigrants who establish themselves in other countries temporarily ...
Migration of Rich Immigrants addresses flows of emigrants who establish themselves in other countries temporarily
or permanently, in favorable economic conditions. Vailati and Rial explore these migratory paths and analyze how gender, class, age, sexual orientation and ethnicity influence these ...
Abadeer incorporates informal norms such as religion, mores, myths, taboos, codes-of-conduct, customary laws, and traditions, ...
Abadeer incorporates informal norms such as religion, mores, myths, taboos, codes-of-conduct, customary laws, and traditions,
into the structure of formal rules (e.g., polity, judiciary, laws, and the enforcement of law), which in turn influence the governance of the transactions.