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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Reviews
'With this major work, Teemu Paavolainen takes his place in the vanguard of thinkers who are creatively bringing cognitive science into an exciting and highly productive dialogue with Theatre Studies. With considerable philosophical sophistication and an impressive knowledge of relevant cognitive science, Paavolainen contributes to debates about the nature and workings of affordances, image schemas, and other basic cognitive processes. His is an exemplary enactment of what is best and most promising in cognitive approaches to theatre.' - Mark Johnson, Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon, USA
'In this brilliant study the opposition between Kantor and Grotowski is deconstructed and some important aspects they both shared appear. Reintroducing the political and social dimensions of the 'poor theatre' by means of the cognitive approach seems to me really fascinating. The case studies give the reader not familiar with the Polish critical reception of Grotowski and Kantor precise accounts of their analyzed performances.' - Dariusz Kosi?ski, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, and the Grotowski Institute, Wroc?aw, Poland
'This is a sophisticated, thorough, and innovative analysis that has the potential to significantly advance the field of cognitive approaches to performance. Eschewing brain-bound models and embracing embodied, distributed, and extended approaches to cognition, Paavolainen deftlydemonstrates the potential of these theories to transform current theories of performance.' - Evelyn Tribble, Donald Collie Chair of English, University of Otago, New Zealand
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Theatre/Ecology/Cognition
Book Subtitle: Theorizing Performer-Object Interaction in Grotowski, Kantor, and Meyerhold
Authors: Teemu Paavolainen
Series Title: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137277923
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Theatre & Performance Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Teemu Paavolainen 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-27791-6Published: 05 December 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-44745-9Published: 18 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-27792-3Published: 11 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2945-7297
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7300
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 283
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: Theatre History, Cognitive Psychology, Cultural Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies, Aesthetics