Shakespeare, l'identite neurologique et les etudes sur la neurodiversite a l'epoque moderne : une approche neurologique du « personnage »

Titre original en anglais : Shakespeare, Neurological Identity, and Early Modern Neurodiversity Studies: A Neurological Approach to ‘Character’

Marks, M. & Irish, B. J. (2024). Shakespeare, Neurological Identity, and Early Modern Neurodiversity Studies: A Neurological Approach to ‘Character’. Shakespeare, 22(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2024.2444937

Date de publication: 27/12/2024 Ajout dans AutiHub: 08/08/2026 Type: Article Langue de l’article: Anglais

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Un nouveau sous-domaine a commence a se developper dans les travaux universitaires sur la Renaissance anglaise : les etudes sur la neurodiversite a l'epoque moderne. Cet essai, ecrit par deux chercheurs qui s'identifient comme autistes, presente une approche de « personnage » chez Shakespeare informee par la neurologie, en theorisant l'analyse de l'identite neurologique, c'est-a-dire les styles cognitifs, emotionnels et sensoriels caracteristiques d'une figure litteraire particuliere. Plus precisement, nous developpons le concept de neurotypes afin d'aider a decrire certains types de caracteristiques cognitives, emotionnelles et sensorielles, en suggerant qu'ils peuvent servir de moyen non diagnostique de rendre compte a la fois des points de contact entre le passe et le present neurologiques et de l'identite neurologique plus generalement. Cette approche aide non seulement a mettre au jour la neurodivergence dans les pieces de Shakespeare, mais montre aussi, plus largement, comment l'attention portee a l'enchevetrement des fonctionnements cognitif, emotionnel et sensoriel peut elucider la maniere dont ses personnages auraient ete compris par les sujets de l'epoque moderne, ainsi que la maniere dont ils pourraient etre compris aujourd'hui a la lumiere de notre prise de conscience croissante de la neurodiversite humaine.

A new subfield has begun to develop in scholarship of the English Renaissance: early modern neurodiversity studies. This essay, written by two scholars who identify as autistic, presents a neurologically informed approach to Shakespearean ‘character’, by theorising the analysis of neurological identity—that is, the characteristic cognitive, emotional, and sensory styles of a particular literary figure. More specifically, we develop the concept of neurotypes to help describe certain kinds of cognitive, emotional, and sensory characteristics, suggesting that they can function as a non-diagnostic way of accounting both for points of contact between the neurological past and present and for neurological identity more generally. This approach not only helps uncover neurodivergence in Shakespeare’s plays, but also shows more broadly how attention to the entanglement of cognitive, emotional, and sensory functioning can elucidate how his characters would have been understood by early modern subjects, and how they might be understood today in light of our growing awareness of human neurodiversity.

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