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Performance and Cognition: Theatre Studies and the Cognitive Turn

Performance and Cognition: Theatre Studies and the Cognitive Turn

Hart, F. Elizabeth
McConachie, Bruce

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies, Book 4

Literary CriticismTheater History

ISBN10: 0415763843
ISBN13: 9780415763844
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 24 2006
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.45 Depth: 9.22
Language: English

This book invites theatre and performance scholars to incorporate many of the insights of cognitive science into their work and to begin considering all of their research projects from the perspective of cognitive studies. As well as including a comprehensive introduction to the challenges of cognitive studies for theatre and performance scholarship, the volume features essays in all of the major areas of theatre and performance. Several of the contributions use cognitive studies to challenge some of the key scholarly and practical orientations in theatre and performance studies. The experimentally based insights of cognitive science are shown to be at odds with Saussurean semiotics, psychoanalysis, and aspects of deconstruction, new historicism, and Foucauldian discourse theory. Performance and Cognition opens up fresh perspectives on theatre studies - with applications for dramatic criticism, performance analysis, acting practice, audience response, theatre history, and other important areas -and sets the agenda for future work, helping to map the emergence of this new approach.

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