Drama, Politics, and Evolution

Bruce McConachie

• Paperback | Engels | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• This book outlines the evolution of our political nature over two million years and explores many of the rituals, plays, films, and other performances... Lees meer

A Cognitive Approach to John Donne's Songs and Sonnets

M Winkleman

• Hardcover | Engels | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• Investigations into how the brain actually works have led to remarkable discoveries and these findings carry profound implications for interpreting li... Lees meer

Cognitive Joyce

• Hardcover | Engels | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• 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. Cognit... Lees meer

William Forsythe's Postdramatic Dance Theater

Freya Vass

• Paperback | Engels | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• This book takes choreographer William Forsythe's choreographic and scenographic processes as a holistic lens through which to view dance as a fundamen... Lees meer

Evolving Hamlet

A Fletcher

• Paperback | Engels | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• Using Hamlet and a number of other popular and influential seventeenth-century tragedies as case-studies, this book shows how aesthetic experience can... Lees meer

Cognition, Mindreading, and Shakespeare's Characters

Nicholas R Helms

• Hardcover | Engels | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• Cognition, Mindreading, and Shakespeare's Characters brings cognitive science to Shakespeare, applying contemporary theories of mindreading to Shakesp... Lees meer

The Early Evolutionary Imagination

Emelie Jonsson

• Paperback | Engels | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• Darwinian evolution is an imaginative problem that has been passed down to us unsolved. It is our most powerful explanation of humanity's place in nat... Lees meer

The Public Intellectualism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and W.E.B. Du Bois

R Schneider

• Hardcover | Engels | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• 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 off... Lees meer

Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture

J Stevenson

• Paperback | Engels | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• In Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture, Jill Stevenson uses cognitive theory to explore the layperson s physical encounter with live... Lees meer

Restoring the Human Context to Literary and Performance Studies

Howard Mancing, Jennifer Marston William

• Hardcover | Engels | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• Restoring the Human Context to Literary and Performance Studies argues that much of contemporary literary theory is still predicated, at least implici... Lees meer

Toward a General Theory of Acting

J Lutterbie

• Hardcover | Engels | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• Toward a General Theory of Acting explores the actor's art through the lens of Dynamic Systems Theory and recent findings in the Cognitive Sciences. A... Lees meer

Theatre/Ecology/Cognition

T Paavolainen

• Hardcover | Engels | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• How is performer-object interaction enacted and perceived in the theatre? How thereby are varieties of 'meaning' also enacted and perceived? Using cog... Lees meer

Kinesthetic Spectatorship in the Theatre

Stanton B Garner Jr

• Hardcover | Engels | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• This book is about the centrality of movement, movement perception, and kinesthetic experience to theatrical spectatorship. Drawing upon phenomenologi... Lees meer

Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture

J Stevenson

• Hardcover | Engels | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• In Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture, Jill Stevenson uses cognitive theory to explore the layperson s physical encounter with live... Lees meer

The Early Evolutionary Imagination

Emelie Jonsson

• Hardcover | Engels | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• Darwinian evolution is an imaginative problem that has been passed down to us unsolved. It is our most powerful explanation of humanity's place in nat... Lees meer

A Cognitive Approach to John Donne's Songs and Sonnets

M Winkleman

• Paperback | Engels | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• Investigations into how the brain actually works have led to remarkable discoveries and these findings carry profound implications for interpreting li... Lees meer

Movement in Renaissance Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• Pioneers a rich new scholarly approach of applying kensic intelligence theories to Renaissance texts Presents a range of Renaissance writers and think... Lees meer

Kinesthetic Spectatorship in the Theatre

Stanton B Garner Jr

• Paperback | Engels | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• This book is about the centrality of movement, movement perception, and kinesthetic experience to theatrical spectatorship. Drawing upon phenomenologi... Lees meer

Shakespearean Neuroplay

Cook

• Hardcover | Engels | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• 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 na... Lees meer

Trusting Performance

N Rokotnitz

• Hardcover | Engels | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• An epistemological inquiry into the dynamics of interpersonal trust-relations, combining philosophy, science, and critical theory in the analysis of p... Lees meer

The Public Intellectualism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and W.E.B. Du Bois

R Schneider

• Paperback | Engels | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• 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 off... Lees meer

Cognitive Approaches to German Historical Film

Jennifer Marston William

• Paperback | Engels | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• This book explores how minds at the movies understand minds in the movies and introduces readers to some fundamental principles of Cognitive Studies-n... Lees meer

Restoring the Human Context to Literary and Performance Studies

Howard Mancing, Jennifer Marston William

• Paperback | Engels | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• Restoring the Human Context to Literary and Performance Studies argues that much of contemporary literary theory is still predicated, at least implici... Lees meer

Literature, Science, and a New Humanities

J Gottschall

• Paperback | Engels | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• Literary studies are at a tipping point. ." There is broad agreement that the discipline is in "crisis" - that it is aimless, that its intellectual en... Lees meer