Interplay
The Method and Potential of a Cognitive Scientific Approach to Theatre
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4854067 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amy Cook (0000-0001-6184-1725, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 579-594 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theatre Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-2882 • E-ISSN: 1086-332X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tj.2008.0015 |
| OpenAlex | W2066410935 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 17 |
This essay argues that cognitive linguistics-conceptual blending theory (CBT) in particular-links language, cognition, and the body in ways that impact practical and theoretical issues in performance. An unpacking of the first sentence of Richard III demonstrates the use of CBT as a tool in dramaturgical or textual analysis. Through an analysis of a casting choice in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet, the essay argues that CBT provides a way to understand what is meant when theatre scholars or practitioners say that one thing "works" and another does not. The embodied interplay between actor/character and spectator is illuminated by research on mirror neurons. The author argues that mimesis is better understood as occurring between actor and spectator, rather than actor and character. Finally, the essay re-imagines what constitutes character-and its relationship to actor-in light of research on phantom limbs
Aesthetics · Art · Character (mathematics · Cognition · Cognitive linguistics · Cognitive science · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · HAMLET (protein complex · Linguistics · Literature · Sentence · Sociology · Unpacking · Action Observation and Synchronization · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology
Minds on Stage
Evolution, Cognition, and Performance
Performing Early Christian Literature
Imaginative play for a predictive spectator
Wrinkles, Wormholes, and Hamlet
Shakespeare and cognition
The problem with performativity
How the world stage makes its subjects
Thwarting Binarisms
Video Games, Theater, and the Paradox of Fiction
Perceiving and Believing
Metaphors We Live By
The Brain's concepts
Conceptual integration and metaphor
Rubber hands ‘feel’ touch that eyes see
Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying the understanding and imitation of action
The Mirror-Neuron System
Frame analysis
Satisfying Skepticism
Role Playing and Identity
Intentional Attunement
Year of the King
Replicating Richard
Toward a Phenomenological Model of the Actor's Embodied Modes of Experience
Matter, System, and Early Modern Studies
The Anthropology of Performance
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,65 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2023 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |