Peter Meineck
Biographic Data
| ID | 5628117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Meineck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Meineck |
| SIGNATURE | MEINECK P |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4479-2890 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Cognitive Theory
The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Cognitive Theory is an interdisciplinary volume that examines the application of cognitive theory to the study of the classical world, across several interrelated areas including linguistics, literary theory, social practices, performance, artificial intelligence and archaeology. With contributions from a diverse group of international scholars working in this exciting new area, the volume explores the proce…
Routledge Handbook of Classics and Cognitive Theory
The Remains of Ancient Action
This chapter explores the application of cognitive theory to ancient drama and how this approach can help us understand more about how these plays functioned in antiquity. dispel a few theatrical myths that still surround Greek drama, and inform the way in which these ancient plays are interpreted by modern practitioners. In doing so it also hope to dispel a few theatrical myths that still surround Greek drama, and inform the way in which these a…
Tragic Props and Cognitive Function
Reviewed by: Tragic Props and Cognitive Function: Aspects of the Function of Images in Thinking by Colleen Chaston Peter Meineck Colleen Chaston. Tragic Props and Cognitive Function: Aspects of the Function of Images in Thinking. Mnemosyne Supplements, 317. Leiden: Brill, 2010. Pp. xvi, 269. $147.00. ISBN 978–9004–17738–3. “Cognitive science”—a term that encompasses theories of human brain processing from the fields of psychology, linguistics, ph…
Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks
Under Athena’s Gaze
This chapter demonstrates how reading an ancient play with the physical environment where it was originally staged in mind might open up another dimension of appreciation and understanding of ancient drama. The key to understanding the importance of the “topographical opsis ” lies in Greek drama’s close connections to the presentation of performative collective movement such as processions, street revels, parades, dance and choral performance and…
Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy
This volume explores how the choruses of Greek tragedy creatively combined media and discourses to generate their own specific forms of meaning. The contributors analyse choruses as fictional, religious and civic performers; as combinations of text, song and dance; and as objects of reflection in themselves, in relation and contrast to the choruses of comedy and melic poetry. Drawing on earlier analyses of the social context of Greek drama, the n…
The Neuroscience of the Tragic Mask
The Neuroscience of the Tragic Mask PETER MEINECK Manisleasthimself when hetalks inhisownperson. Givehima mask, andhewilltellyouthetruth. - OscarWilde, TheCritic as Artist TA he image ofthetragicmaskwithitsfixedexpression ,emptyeye sockets,monochromatic complexion, and exaggerateddownturned mouthsitsnextto its comic counterpart as theveryemblemof livetheatre, as theintertwinedmasksof "Comedy" and "Tragedy."However,inthe theatre worldmasksare one …
Page and Stage
Page and Stage: Theater, Tradition, and Culture in America" was a major classics-based public program supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities that toured the United States in 2008-9. This paper traces the origins and development of this groundbreaking new program that united professional theater artists with classicists and librarians to reach an audience of over 88,000 people and sought to inspire dynamic public programming betwee…
The Neuroscience of the Tragic Mask
The Neuroscience of the Tragic Mask PETER MEINECK Manisleasthimself when hetalks inhisownperson. Givehima mask, andhewilltellyouthetruth. - OscarWilde, TheCritic as Artist TA he image ofthetragicmaskwithitsfixedexpression ,emptyeye sockets,monochromatic complexion, and exaggerateddownturned mouthsitsnextto its comic counterpart as theveryemblemof livetheatre, as theintertwinedmasksof "Comedy" and "Tragedy."However,inthe theatre worldmasksare one …
Page and Stage
Page and Stage: Theater, Tradition, and Culture in America" was a major classics-based public program supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities that toured the United States in 2008-9. This paper traces the origins and development of this groundbreaking new program that united professional theater artists with classicists and librarians to reach an audience of over 88,000 people and sought to inspire dynamic public programming betwee…
The Neuroscience of the Tragic Mask
The Neuroscience of the Tragic Mask PETER MEINECK Manisleasthimself when hetalks inhisownperson. Givehima mask, andhewilltellyouthetruth. - OscarWilde, TheCritic as Artist TA he image ofthetragicmaskwithitsfixedexpression ,emptyeye sockets,monochromatic complexion, and exaggerateddownturned mouthsitsnextto its comic counterpart as theveryemblemof livetheatre, as theintertwinedmasksof "Comedy" and "Tragedy."However,inthe theatre worldmasksare one …
Under Athena’s Gaze
This chapter demonstrates how reading an ancient play with the physical environment where it was originally staged in mind might open up another dimension of appreciation and understanding of ancient drama. The key to understanding the importance of the “topographical opsis ” lies in Greek drama’s close connections to the presentation of performative collective movement such as processions, street revels, parades, dance and choral performance and…
Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy
This volume explores how the choruses of Greek tragedy creatively combined media and discourses to generate their own specific forms of meaning. The contributors analyse choruses as fictional, religious and civic performers; as combinations of text, song and dance; and as objects of reflection in themselves, in relation and contrast to the choruses of comedy and melic poetry. Drawing on earlier analyses of the social context of Greek drama, the n…
Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks
Tragic Props and Cognitive Function
Reviewed by: Tragic Props and Cognitive Function: Aspects of the Function of Images in Thinking by Colleen Chaston Peter Meineck Colleen Chaston. Tragic Props and Cognitive Function: Aspects of the Function of Images in Thinking. Mnemosyne Supplements, 317. Leiden: Brill, 2010. Pp. xvi, 269. $147.00. ISBN 978–9004–17738–3. “Cognitive science”—a term that encompasses theories of human brain processing from the fields of psychology, linguistics, ph…
The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Cognitive Theory
The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Cognitive Theory is an interdisciplinary volume that examines the application of cognitive theory to the study of the classical world, across several interrelated areas including linguistics, literary theory, social practices, performance, artificial intelligence and archaeology. With contributions from a diverse group of international scholars working in this exciting new area, the volume explores the proce…
Routledge Handbook of Classics and Cognitive Theory
The Remains of Ancient Action
This chapter explores the application of cognitive theory to ancient drama and how this approach can help us understand more about how these plays functioned in antiquity. dispel a few theatrical myths that still surround Greek drama, and inform the way in which these ancient plays are interpreted by modern practitioners. In doing so it also hope to dispel a few theatrical myths that still surround Greek drama, and inform the way in which these a…
History (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Cognitive science (2 works)