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December 22, 2007 |
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Review of Performance and Cognition: Theatre Studies and the Cognitive Turn. Edited by Bruce McConachie and F. Elizabeth Hart. London, Routledge, 2007.
The recognition that all brain processes are bodily processes, and thus that cognition is an embodied condition rather than an abstract idea is central to the recent florescence of the interdisciplinary field of cognitive sciences. Brains are body, and it would seem obvious then, that cognitive literary studies would have a lot to learn from studying the performance of plays, the one genre in which audiences watch actual bodies (rather than inky representations of them) move and talk. Furthermore, as the study of ...
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