The Affordances of Hospitality
Shakespearean Drama between Historicism and Phenomenology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4375494 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julia Reinhard Lupton (0000-0003-1855-2340, University of California, Irvine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 615-633 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/03335372-2873512 |
| OpenAlex | W1757320565 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 30 |
In the current study of Shakespearean drama, historical approaches have been supplemented by phenomenological attention to the ways human actors relate to their settings across time. Thinking phenomenologically, I use affordance theory to understand hospitality as both a theme in Shakespearean drama and a framing of the enterprise of theater. The concept of affordance was developed by the environmental psychologist James J. Gibson to describe the action possibilities of things. Affordances inhere in environments that themselves reflect various human interactions and routines. Affordances have entered into theater studies as both an aid to historicism and a way of considering plays outside their original contexts. My main example of affordances in Shakespearean drama is Perdita's offering of flowers to her guests in the sheepshearing episode of The Winter's Tale. Her two floral offerings, the first culled from the kitchen garden and handed to her disguised guests as hostess gifts and the second constructed purely out of language for the benefit of her lover Florizel, manifest a range of affordances. These include the culinary virtues of herbs, the emotional and theatrical resources of social scripts, and the affinities between poetic expression and autopoietic growth
Aesthetics · Affordance · Archaeology · Art · Cognitive psychology · Drama · Epistemology · Historicism · Hospitality · Literature · Sociology · Tourism · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Emotions and Moral Behavior · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
The Shakespearean Stage Space
Cognition in the Globe
Hospitality and Treachery in Western Literature
Great Reckonings in Little Rooms
Hospitable Performances
Distributed cognition, representation, and affordance
The Human Condition
The Human Condition
Autopoiesis and Cognition
An Ontology of Affordances
Affordances, Dynamic Experience, and the Challenge of Reification
A Psychologically Meaningful Description of Environments Requires a Relational Approach
Uncomfortable Situations
Affordances Explained
Chinese Shakespeares
The Perception of the Environment
Placing Human Constants within Literary History
Performance Theory
The Hidden Dimension
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2019 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |