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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Turner, Henry S

Titel

Worlds of Experience: Fiction, Image, and the Ontology of Ideas in Sidney and Shakespeare

Ist Teil von

• Studies in English literature, 1500-1900, 2022-12, Vol.62 (1), p.217-244

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article examines ideas about worlds, fiction, art, images, nature, and experience in Philip Sidney's A Defence of Poetry (1580) and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595) by drawing on accounts of the image in classical culture, on dreams and shamanistic worldviews, and on John Dewey's philosophy of pragmatism. The article suggests how theater might offer resources for bringing diverging human and nonhuman worlds into new alignments by furnishing us with accounts of knowledge and collective action that differ from those of modern science.