Within the research field of Shakespeare source studies, this chapter aims firstly to investigate the possible impact of early modern memorial culture on source transmission, secondly to provide a theoretical overview of the feasible contributions of memory studies and cognitive science to the intertextual and interdiscursive processes inherent in literary writing, and thirdly to touch upon the analogy between memory technologies of the past and of the present. This triple articulation is developed by contextualising Renaissance literary writing in terms of cultural locations of memory (as both remembering and forgetting), then by focusing on cognitive theories that see memory as an integrative model close to intertextual and interdiscursive literary processes. Finally, it considers the function of contemporary digital tools and databases in helping both to store data and to reveal new connections between texts, hence possible memorial dynamics at work and the reasonably predictable impact of computer-based memory on authorship and intertextual transactions. Through this investigation, the chapter aims to shed light on the viability of some theoretical and analytical tools which can enlarge our ongoing understanding of the complex dynamics of source transactions in intertextual and interdiscursive terms, paving the way for further theorising on how authorial agency, notably Shakespeare’s, engaged other texts, reused, and transformed them. The chapter concludes by returning to the early modern panorama, which is the specific issue of this volume, and concerns what kind of mnemonic processes we can conjecture in relation to Shakespeare’s rearticulation/(re)use of Italian resources in terms of viable connections with Italian textual or discursive antecedents.
Stevanato, S. (2024). Memory, Intertextuality/Interdiscursivity and Reuse. In Bigliazzi S. (a cura di), Memory and Reuse. Revisiting Shakespeare’s Italian Resources (pp. 21-47). New York and London : Routledge.
Memory, Intertextuality/Interdiscursivity and Reuse
Savina Stevanato
2024-01-01
Abstract
Within the research field of Shakespeare source studies, this chapter aims firstly to investigate the possible impact of early modern memorial culture on source transmission, secondly to provide a theoretical overview of the feasible contributions of memory studies and cognitive science to the intertextual and interdiscursive processes inherent in literary writing, and thirdly to touch upon the analogy between memory technologies of the past and of the present. This triple articulation is developed by contextualising Renaissance literary writing in terms of cultural locations of memory (as both remembering and forgetting), then by focusing on cognitive theories that see memory as an integrative model close to intertextual and interdiscursive literary processes. Finally, it considers the function of contemporary digital tools and databases in helping both to store data and to reveal new connections between texts, hence possible memorial dynamics at work and the reasonably predictable impact of computer-based memory on authorship and intertextual transactions. Through this investigation, the chapter aims to shed light on the viability of some theoretical and analytical tools which can enlarge our ongoing understanding of the complex dynamics of source transactions in intertextual and interdiscursive terms, paving the way for further theorising on how authorial agency, notably Shakespeare’s, engaged other texts, reused, and transformed them. The chapter concludes by returning to the early modern panorama, which is the specific issue of this volume, and concerns what kind of mnemonic processes we can conjecture in relation to Shakespeare’s rearticulation/(re)use of Italian resources in terms of viable connections with Italian textual or discursive antecedents.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.