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In this chapter, Crane considers how close analysis of kinesic effects in literature might be differentiated from traditional new critical close reading. She argues that literary kinesis involves pre-conscious effects of motor resonance that may not always be in line with conscious commentary on images of movement in a given text. Shakespeare’s Macbeth offers a case in point. While the dominant critical response to the play has emphasized an experience of headlong speed, Crane traces an even more powerful nexus of images that resonate with feelings of choking, thwarted movement and entrapment. She argues that critical emphasis on speed is correlated with moral judgment of the Macbeths, and that pre-conscious resonance with images of stifling confinement may prompt an uncomfortable (therefore repressed) identification with them. |