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How to Think like Shakespeare : Lessons from a Renaissance Education
Author
Title
How to Think like Shakespeare : Lessons from a Renaissance Education / Scott Newstok.
ISBN
9780691201580
Publication
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
Physical Description
1 online resource (200 p.) : 20 b/w illus.
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
In English.
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Summary
A lively and engaging guide to vital habits of mind that can help you think more deeply, write more effectively, and learn more joyfullyHow to Think like Shakespeare offers an enlightening and entertaining guide to the craft of thought-one that demonstrates what we've lost in education today, and how we might begin to recover it. In fourteen brief, lively chapters that draw from Shakespeare's world and works, and from other writers past and present, Scott Newstok distills vital habits of mind that can help you think more deeply, write more effectively, and learn more joyfully, in school or beyond.Challenging a host of today's questionable notions about education, Newstok shows how mental play emerges through work, creativity through imitation, autonomy through tradition, innovation through constraint, and freedom through discipline. It was these practices, and a conversation with the past-not a fruitless obsession with assessment-that nurtured a mind like Shakespeare's. And while few of us can hope to approach the genius of the Bard, we can all learn from the exercises that shaped him.Written in a friendly, conversational tone and brimming with insights, How to Think like Shakespeare enacts the thrill of thinking on every page, reviving timeless-and timely-ways to stretch your mind and hone your words.
Variant and related titles
De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2020.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 17, 2022
Series
Skills for Scholars
Contents
Frontmatter
CONTENTS
WHAT'S PAST IS PROLOGUE
1. OF THINKING
2. OF ENDS
3. OF CRAFT
4. OF FIT
5. OF PLACE
6. OF ATTENTION
7. OF TECHNOLOGY
8. OF IMITATION
9. OF EXERCISES
10. OF CONVERSATION
11. OF STOCK
12. OF CONSTRAINT
13. OF MAKING
14. OF FREEDOM
KINSMEN OF THE SHELF
THANKS AND THANKS
INDEX
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