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Hamlet and time-consciousness
a neurophenomenological reading
pp. 215-245
Abstract
Matthew Kibbee notes the timeliness of literary studies' turn to consciousness, not only because the cognitive sciences have recently reengaged with fundamental questions about consciousness, but because that engagement challenges historicist approaches to subjective aesthetic experience.Citing historical phenomenology's resistance to New Historicist models of conscious experience, he makes a case for a neurophenomological approach that acknowledges the reciprocal constraints between first-person phenomenological reports, third-person scientific data, and historical-cultural information. The method is at once sensitive to neurobiological foundations of consciousness and aware of phenomenological traditions. He concludes by offering a reading of Hamlet that explores the temporal paradox at the center of consciousness and how it is enduringly present but always time-bound.
Publication details
Published in:
Budra Paul, Werier Clifford (2016) Shakespeare and consciousness. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 215-245
DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-59541-6_10
Full citation:
Kibbee Matthew (2016) „Hamlet and time-consciousness: a neurophenomenological reading“, In: P. Budra & C. Werier (eds.), Shakespeare and consciousness, Dordrecht, Springer, 215–245.