COGNITIVE STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND PERFORMANCE
B. Mcconachie
Oprawa:
MIĘKKA
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Palgrave Macmillan US
ISBN:
9780230116733
Opis produktu
Engaging Audiences asks what cognitive science can teachscholars of theatre studiesabout spectator response in the theatre. Bruce McConachieintroduces insights from neuroscience and evolutionary theory to examine the dynamics of conscious attention empathy and memory iIntroduction General Cognition for Theatre Audiences Social Cognition in Spectating Cultural Cognition in History Epilogue: Writing Cognitive AuArmed with a deep knowledge of the history of spectatorship McConachie constructively engages with the recent findings of cognitive scientists to challenge fundamental assumptions about how and why we view and recall theatrical events. The result is a thoughtful readable and provocative work with important implications for critical theory historiography and production. John Emigh Professor of Theatre Speech and Dance and of English Brown University/Engaging Audiences provides a major synthesis of theatre/performance and cognitive studies. McConachie finds just the right balance between scientific details and theatrical examples. Philosophy and Literature/In its formidable combination of clarity engagement and rigour it present[s] a persuasive case that theatre and performance studies should pay more attention to the workings of the mind...A landmark in both theatre history and theories of audience reception. Theatre Research InternaBRUCE McOCNACHIE is Professor and Chair of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies University ofWymiary: 340 gr 140 mm 216 mm
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