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BL
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724000
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b543718
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| Main Entry
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Ellen Spolsky.
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| Title & Author
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Word vs image : : cognitive hunger in Shakespeare's England\ Ellen Spolsky.
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| Publication Statement
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Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
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| Page. NO
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(xiv, 240 pages) : illustrations
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| ISBN
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023059803X
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: 1349282189
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: 9780230598034
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: 9781349282180
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| Contents
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Preface: Images, Words and Grotesques in Shakespeare's England Word vs. Image Building Categories of Material Representation before the Reformation Forbidding Images: With Good Reason Building a Literate Mind Category Mismatches and Grotesque Genre: Shakespeare's Lucrece and Trying Again Managing Cognitive Hunger
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| Abstract
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Arguing on recent cognitive evidence that reading a Bible is much more difficult for human brains than seeing images, this book exposes the depth and breadth of Protestant theologians' misunderstandings about how people could reform their spiritual lives - how they could literally change their minds.
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Iconoclasm -- England.
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Literacy -- England.
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Visual communication -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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| LC Classification
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DA320.E454 2007
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| Added Entry
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Ellen Spolsky
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