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A ""blind spot"" suggests an obstructed view, or partisan perception, or a localized lack of understanding. Just as the brain ""reads"" the ""blind spot"" of the visual field by a curious process of readjustment, Shakespearean drama disorients us with moments of unmastered and unmasterable knowledge, recasting the way we see, know and think about knowing. Focusing on such moments of apparent obscurity, this volume puts methods and motives of knowing under the spotlight, and responds both to inscribed acts of blind-sighting, and to the text or action blind-sighting the reader or spectator. While tracing the hermeneutic yield of such occlusion is its main conceptual aim, it also embodies a methodological innovation: structured as an internal dialogue, it aims to capture, and stake out a place for, a processive intellectual energy that enables a distinctive way of knowing in academic life; and to translate a sense of intellectual ""community"" into print.

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Author:   Subha Mukherji
Publisher:   Medieval Institute Publications
Imprint:   Medieval Institute Publications
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.512kg
ISBN:  

9781580443654

ISBN 10:   1580443656
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   01 April 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgements Introduction: Blind Spots of Knowledge in Shakespeare and His World by Subha Mukherji Section 1 Baffling Terms by Adam Zucker Baffling Comedy, Baffling Ourselves: A Response to Adam Zucker by Stephen Spiess Knowing Games: A Response to Adam Zucker by Subha Mukherji Section 2 Shakespeare’s Nuts: The Blind Spots of the Edible Contact Zone by Jonathan Gil Harris Flying Blind, Going Nuts: A Response to Jonathan Gil Harris Subha Mukherji Section 3 Eyes Wide Shut: Seeing and Knowing in Othello by Supriya Chaudhuri Seeing Blindness: A Response to Supriya Chaudhuri by Jonathan Gil Harris Towards an Epistemology of the Stage? A Response to Supriya Chaudhuri by Stephen Spiess Section 4 What Emilia Knew: Shakespeare Reads James by Aveek Sen Minding Shakespeare's Gaps: A Response to Aveek Sen by Tanya Pollard Darkness Visible: A Response to Aveek Sen by Subha Mukherji Section 5 Knowing Kin and Kind in The Winter's Taleby Tanya Pollard Unknowing Kind: A Response to Tanya Pollard by Zachary Lesser Difficult Loves: A Response to Tanya Pollard by Aveek Sen Section 6 The Epistemology of Violence in The Comedie of Errorsby Stephen Spiess What Does the Slave Know? A Response to Stephen Spiess by Supriya Chaudhuri Narrating Violence: A Response to Stephen Spiess by Adam Zucker Section 7 Broken English: A Dialogue by Michael Witmore and Jonathan Hope ""To sleep, maybe to dream"" and Other Encounters with a Trained Machine by Michael Witmore The Inheritance of Meat by Jonathan Hope Section 8 Conscience Doth Make Errors: The Blind Spot of Shakespearean Quotation by Zachary Lesser On Not Knowing Shakespeare: A Response to Zachary Lesser by Tanya Pollard The Food of Points: A Response to Zachary Lesser by Adam Zucker Notes on Contributors Index"

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