Article published In: Cognitive Linguistic Studies
Vol. 5:2 (2018) ► pp.410–425
The time of human thoughts and deeds
A cognitive discourse analysis of Hamlet and Macbeth
Published online: 14 February 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00027.hov
https://doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00027.hov
Abstract
A mysterious part of our physical and psychological models of the world is Time. Its cognitive representation has evolved from
Mythology through Literature to Physics. In ancient times, it was Kala of the Indo-Europeans, Chronos of the Greek gods, and the
Kirke of Odyssey whose world could make heroes forget about anything. Then came Renaissance, the gradual awakening of the Time of
Soul, the swing of philosophical mind between material and ideal worlds, its acceleration to the Relativity of Einstein, and the
recent collapse on the Quantum Theory and to new biocentric passages. Shakespeare’s world of human mind and characters is so
diverse and opulent, that anyone can find and emulate natural and supernatural phenomena in it, getting food for philosophical,
psychological contemplation and even ideas for quantum-physical speculations. The truth is that Time molds the world of matter with
the subjective world of human dreams and deeds.
Article outline
- 1.Overture
- 2.Recitative
- 3.Ambiguities of Shakespearean concept of time
- 4.Heidegger’s resolution
- 5.The readiness is all!
- 6.Epilogue
- Notes
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