Performance and Cognition
Theatre Studies and the Cognitive Turn
Price: $39.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-58339-8
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 2nd February 2010
- Pages: 252
About the Book
This anthology is the first of its kind. In addition to opening up fresh perspectives on theatre studies – with applications for dramatic criticism, performance analysis, acting practice, audience response, theatre history, and other important areas – the book sets the agenda for future work, helping to map the emergence of this new approach.
Following a comprehensive introduction, the contributors examine:
- the interfaces between cognitive studies and Lacanian psychoanalysis, phenomenology and communication theory
- different ideas from cognitive studies that open up the meanings of several plays
- the process of acting and the work of Antonio Damasio
- theatrical response: the dynamics of perception, and the riots that greeted the 1907 production of The Playboy of the Western World.
This original and authoritative work will be attractive to scholars and graduate students of drama, theatre, and performance.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction Part 1: Drama and Cognition 2. A Cognitive Reading of the Motif of Mislaid Identity in Dryden’s Ampitryon (1690) 3. `It Is Required You Do Awake Your Faith’: Learning to Trust the Body through Performing The Winter’s Tale 4.Categories and Catcalls: Cognitive Dissonance in The Playboy of the Western World Part 2: Theatre and Cognition 5. Neuroscience and Creativity in the Rehearsal Process 6. Image and Action: Cognitive Neuroscience and Actor Training 7. Relevance and Performative Art Part 3: Theory and Cognition 8. See the Play, Read the Book 9. Performance, Phenomenology, and the Cognitive Turn 10. Cognitive Studies and Epistemic Competence in Cultural History: Moving Beyond Freud and Lacan 11.Performance Strategies, Image Schemas, and Communication Frameworks 12. Glossary of Terms
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