Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance: Phenomenology, Cognition, Movement

Garner, Jr., Stanton B.

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 linguistics, it considers how we inhabit the movements of others and how these movements inhabit us. Individual chapters explore the dynamics of movement and animation, action and intentionality, kinesthetic resonance (or mirroring), language, speech, and empathy. In one of its most important contributions to the study of theatre, performance, and spectatorship, this book foregrounds otherness, divergence, and disability in its account of movement perception. The discussions of this and other issues are accompanied by detailed analysis of theatre, puppetry, and dance performances.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2018-12-06

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783030063009

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-91794-8

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 277