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46 produkter
Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture
Sensual Piety in Late Medieval York
Av J. Stevenson
Inbunden, 2010
506 kr
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In Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture, Jill Stevenson uses cognitive theory to explore the layperson s physical encounter with live religious performances, and to argue that laypeople s interactions with other devotional media - such as books and art objects - may also have …
Shakespearean Neuroplay
Reinvigorating the Study of Dramatic Texts and Performance through Cognitive Science
Av A. Cook
Inbunden, 2010
582 kr
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Using Shakespeare's Hamlet as a test subject and cognitive linguistic theory of conceptual blending as a tool, Cook unravels the 'mirror held up to nature' at the center of Shakespeare's play and provides a methodology for applying cognitive science to the study of drama.
Cognition in the Globe
Attention and Memory in Shakespeare’s Theatre
Av E. Tribble
Inbunden, 2011
1155 kr
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Early modern playing companies performed up to six different plays a week and mounted new plays frequently. This book seeks to answer a seemingly simple question: how did they do it? Drawing upon work in philosophy and the cognitive sciences, it proposes that the cognitive work of theatre is …
Evolving Hamlet
Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection
Av A. Fletcher
Inbunden, 2011
634 kr
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Using Hamlet and a number of other popular and influential seventeenth-century tragedies as case-studies, this book shows how aesthetic experience can help organize the biological functions of our brains into adaptive social networks.
Engaging Audiences
A Cognitive Approach to Spectating in the Theatre
Häftad, 2011
553 kr
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Engaging Audiences asks what cognitive science can teach scholars of theatre studies about spectator response in the theatre. Bruce McConachie introduces insights from neuroscience and evolutionary theory to examine the dynamics of conscious attention, empathy and memory in theatre goers.
Trusting Performance
A Cognitive Approach to Embodiment in Drama
Av N. Rokotnitz
Inbunden, 2011
521 kr
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An epistemological inquiry into the dynamics of interpersonal trust-relations, combining philosophy, science, and critical theory in the analysis of performing bodies - on stage and in life. Rokotnitz argues for the exploration of drama as a conduit to emotional learning that can change the somatic …
Literature, Science, and a New Humanities
Inbunden, 2008
634 kr
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Literary studies are at a tipping point. ." There is broad agreement that the discipline is in "crisis" - that it is aimless, that its intellectual energy is spent, that all of the trends are bad, and that fundamental change will be required to set things right. But there is little agreement on …
Literature, Science, and a New Humanities
Häftad, 2008
634 kr
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Literary studies are at a tipping point. ." There is broad agreement that the discipline is in "crisis" - that it is aimless, that its intellectual energy is spent, that all of the trends are bad, and that fundamental change will be required to set things right. But there is little agreement on …
Engaging Audiences
A Cognitive Approach to Spectating in the Theatre
Inbunden, 2008
521 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Engaging Audiences asks what cognitive science can teach scholars of theatre studies about spectator response in the theatre. Bruce McConachie introduces insights from neuroscience and evolutionary theory to examine the dynamics of conscious attention, empathy and memory in theatre goers.
Public Intellectualism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and W.E.B. Du Bois
Emotional Dimensions of Race and Reform
Av R. Schneider
Inbunden, 2010
634 kr
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In the first in-depth study of the emotional dimensions of Du Bois's and Emerson's writings on public intellectualism, reform, and race, Schneider offers a valuable and eloquent contribution to the critical tradition.
Graphing Jane Austen
The Evolutionary Basis of Literary Meaning
Av J. Carroll, J. Gottschall m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
634 kr
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This book helps to bridge the gap between science and literary scholarship. Building on findings in the evolutionary human sciences, the authors construct a model of human nature in order to illuminate the evolved psychology that shapes the organization of characters in nineteenth-century British …
Theatre/Ecology/Cognition
Theorizing Performer-Object Interaction in Grotowski, Kantor, and Meyerhold
Inbunden, 2012
1128 kr
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How is performer-object interaction enacted and perceived in the theatre? How thereby are varieties of 'meaning' also enacted and perceived? Using cognitive theory and ecological ontology, Paavolainen investigates how the interplay of actors and objects affords a degree of enjoyment and …
Cognitive Approach to John Donne’s Songs and Sonnets
Av M. Winkleman
Inbunden, 2013
634 kr
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Investigations into how the brain actually works have led to remarkable discoveries and these findings carry profound implications for interpreting literature. This study applies recent breakthroughs from neuroscience and evolutionary psychology in order to deepen our understanding of John Donne's …
Bewitched and Bedeviled
A Cognitive Approach to Embodiment in Early English Possession
Av K. Uszkalo
Inbunden, 2015
1259 kr
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Narratives of possession have survived in early English medical and philosophical treatises. Using ideas derived from cognitive science, this study moves through the stages of possession and exorcism to describe how the social, religious, and medical were internalized to create the varied …
Shakespeare and Consciousness
Av Paul Budra, Clifford Werier
Inbunden, 2016
1635 kr
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This book examines how early modern and recently emerging theories of consciousness and cognitive science help us to re-imagine our engagements with Shakespeare in text and performance. Papers investigate the connections between states of mind, emotion, and sensation that constitute consciousness …
Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture
Sensual Piety in Late Medieval York
Av J. Stevenson
Häftad, 2015
582 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture, Jill Stevenson uses cognitive theory to explore the layperson s physical encounter with live religious performances, and to argue that laypeople s interactions with other devotional media - such as books and art objects - may also have …
Shakespearean Neuroplay
Reinvigorating the Study of Dramatic Texts and Performance through Cognitive Science
Av A. Cook
Häftad, 2010
582 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Using Shakespeare's Hamlet as a test subject and cognitive linguistic theory of conceptual blending as a tool, Cook unravels the 'mirror held up to nature' at the center of Shakespeare's play and provides a methodology for applying cognitive science to the study of drama.
Cognition in the Globe
Attention and Memory in Shakespeare’s Theatre
Av E. Tribble
Häftad, 2011
983 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Early modern playing companies performed up to six different plays a week and mounted new plays frequently. This book seeks to answer a seemingly simple question: how did they do it? Drawing upon work in philosophy and the cognitive sciences, it proposes that the cognitive work of theatre is …
Evolving Hamlet
Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection
Av A. Fletcher
Häftad, 2011
634 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Using Hamlet and a number of other popular and influential seventeenth-century tragedies as case-studies, this book shows how aesthetic experience can help organize the biological functions of our brains into adaptive social networks.
Public Intellectualism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and W.E.B. Du Bois
Emotional Dimensions of Race and Reform
Av R. Schneider
Häftad, 2010
634 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the first in-depth study of the emotional dimensions of Du Bois's and Emerson's writings on public intellectualism, reform, and race, Schneider offers a valuable and eloquent contribution to the critical tradition.
Graphing Jane Austen
The Evolutionary Basis of Literary Meaning
Av J. Carroll, J. Gottschall m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
634 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book helps to bridge the gap between science and literary scholarship. Building on findings in the evolutionary human sciences, the authors construct a model of human nature in order to illuminate the evolved psychology that shapes the organization of characters in nineteenth-century British …
Theatre/Ecology/Cognition
Theorizing Performer-Object Interaction in Grotowski, Kantor, and Meyerhold
Häftad, 2015
1128 kr
Lägg i varukorg
How is performer-object interaction enacted and perceived in the theatre? How thereby are varieties of 'meaning' also enacted and perceived? Using cognitive theory and ecological ontology, Paavolainen investigates how the interplay of actors and objects affords a degree of enjoyment and …
Cognitive Approach to John Donne’s Songs and Sonnets
Av M. Winkleman
Häftad, 2013
634 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Investigations into how the brain actually works have led to remarkable discoveries and these findings carry profound implications for interpreting literature. This study applies recent breakthroughs from neuroscience and evolutionary psychology in order to deepen our understanding of John Donne's …
Shakespeare and Consciousness
Av Paul Budra, Clifford Werier
Häftad, 2018
1134 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book examines how early modern and recently emerging theories of consciousness and cognitive science help us to re-imagine our engagements with Shakespeare in text and performance. Papers investigate the connections between states of mind, emotion, and sensation that constitute consciousness …
Cognition, Mindreading, and Shakespeare's Characters
Inbunden, 2019
961 kr
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Cognition, Mindreading, and Shakespeare's Characters brings cognitive science to Shakespeare, applying contemporary theories of mindreading to Shakespeare’s construction of character. Building on the work of the philosopher Alvin Goldman and cognitive literary critics such as Bruce McConachie and …
Enacting Lecoq
Movement in Theatre, Cognition, and Life
Av Maiya Murphy
Inbunden, 2019
932 kr
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This book examines the theatrical movement-based pedagogy of Jacques Lecoq (1921-1999) through the lens of the cognitive scientific paradigm of enaction. The conversation between these two both uncovers more of the possible cognitive processes at work in Lecoq pedagogy and proposes how Lecoq’s own …
Kinesthetic Spectatorship in the Theatre
Phenomenology, Cognition, Movement
Häftad, 2018
321 kr
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This book is about the centrality of movement, movement perception, and kinesthetic experience to theatrical spectatorship. Drawing upon phenomenological accounts of movement experience and the insights of cognitive science, neuroscience, acting theory, dance theory, philosophy of mind, and …
Cognitive Joyce
Av Sylvain Belluc, Valérie Bénéjam
Häftad, 2019
1021 kr
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This collection is the first book-length study to re-evaluate all of James Joyce's major fictional works through the lens of cognitive studies. Cognitive Joyce presents Joyce's relationship to the scientific knowledge and practices of his time and examines his texts in light of contemporary …
Kinaesthesia and Visual Self-Reflection in Contemporary Dance
Inbunden, 2021
960 kr
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Kinaesthesia and Visual Self-reflection in Contemporary Dance features interviews with UK-based professional-level contemporary, ballet, hip hop, and breaking dancers and cross-disciplinary explication of kinaesthesia and visual self-reflection discourses. Expanding on the concept of a …
Kinaesthesia and Visual Self-Reflection in Contemporary Dance
Häftad, 2022
960 kr
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Kinaesthesia and Visual Self-reflection in Contemporary Dance features interviews with UK-based professional-level contemporary, ballet, hip hop, and breaking dancers and cross-disciplinary explication of kinaesthesia and visual self-reflection discourses. Expanding on the concept of a …
