Blind Spots of Knowledge in Shakespeare and His World: A Conversation

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Blind Spots of Knowledge in Shakespeare and His World

A Conversation

Edited by: Subha Mukherji

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2019

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Volume 65 | Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

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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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Subha Mukherji, University of Cambridge, UK.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Blind Spots of Knowledge in Shakespeare and His World Subha Mukherji Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Essays and Responses
1. Baffling Terms Adam Zucker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
Baffling Comedy, Baffling Ourselves: A Response to Adam Zucker Stephen Spiess Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	39
Knowing Games: A Response to Adam Zucker Subha Mukherji Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	42
2. Shakespeare’s Nuts: The Blind Spots of the Edible Contact Zone Jonathan Gil Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	49
Flying Blind, Going Nuts: A Response to Jonathan Gil Harris Subha Mukherji Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	65
3. Eyes Wide Shut: Seeing and Knowing in Othello Supriya Chaudhuri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	75
Seeing Blindness: A Response to Supriya Chaudhuri Jonathan Gil Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	89
Towards an Epistemology of the Stage? A Response to Supriya Chaudhuri Stephen Spiess Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	92
4. What Emilia Knew: Shakespeare Reads James Aveek Sen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	101
Minding Shakespeare’s Gaps: A Response to Aveek Sen Tanya Pollard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	113
Darkness Visible: A Response to Aveek Sen Subha Mukherji Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	116
5. Knowing Kin and Kind in The Winter’s Tale Tanya Pollard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
Unknowing Kind: A Response to Tanya Pollard Zachary Lesser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	133
Difficult Loves: A Response to Tanya Pollard Aveek Sen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	136
6. The Epistemology of Violence in The Comedie of Errors Stephen Spiess Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
What Does the Slave Know? A Response to Stephen Spiess Supriya Chaudhuri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	153
Narrating Violence: A Response to Stephen Spiess Adam Zucker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	156
7. Broken English: A Dialogue Michael Witmore and Jonathan Hope Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	169
“To sleep, maybe to dream” and Other Encounters with a Trained Machine Michael Witmore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	170
The Inheritance of Meat Jonathan Hope Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	179
8. Conscience Doth Make Errors: The Blind Spot of Shakespearean Quotation Zachary Lesser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	185
On Not Knowing Shakespeare: A Response to Zachary Lesser Tanya Pollard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	197
The Food of Points: A Response to Zachary Lesser Adam Zucker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	199
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	207
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211

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eBook published on:

April 1, 2019

eBook ISBN:

9783110661996

Hardcover published on:

April 1, 2019

Hardcover ISBN:

9781580443654

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Main content:

226

Illustrations:

6

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110661996

eBook ISBN: 9783110661996

Hardcover ISBN: 9781580443654

Keywords for this book

Blind Spots; knowing; knowability; blind-sighting; disorientation; Shakespeare; Early Modern literature

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Scholars of Early Modern Literature, medievalists

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