Word Vs. Image: Cognitive Hunger in Shakespeare's EnglandArguing 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. |
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Word versus Image | 1 |
Building Categories of Material Representation before | 2 |
With Good Reason | 56 |
Copyright | |
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