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Writers in sixteenth-century England often kept commonplace books in which to jot down notable fragments encountered during reading or conversation, but few critics have fully appreciated the formative influence this activity had on humanism. Focusing on the discursive practices of "gathering" textual fragments and "framing" or forming, arranging,

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Considers the brain as a site where body and culture meet to form the subject and its expression in language. This book takes Shakespeare as a case study, and demonstrates the explanatory power of cognitive theory. It reveals in Shakespeare's texts a web of structures and categories through which meaning is created.