Kinesthetic Spectatorship in the Theatre Phenomenology, Cognition, M
This book is about the centrality of movement, movement perception, and kinesthetic experience to theatrical spectatorship. Drawing upon phenomenological accounts of movement experience and the insights of cognitive science, neuroscience, acting theory, d
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Stanton B. Garner, Jr.
Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance Series Editors Bruce McConachie University of Pittsburgh Department of Theatre Arts Pittsburgh, PA, USA Blakey Vermeule Department of English Stanford University Stanford, CA, USA
This series offers cognitive approaches to understanding perception, emotions, imagination, meaning-making, and the many other activities that constitute both the production and reception of literary texts and embodied performances. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14903
Stanton B. Garner, Jr.
Kinesthetic Spectatorship in the Theatre Phenomenology, Cognition, Movement
Stanton B. Garner, Jr. Department of English University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN, USA
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Acknowledgments
Kinesthetic Spectatorship in the Theatre is a study of movement and movement perception in theatrical performance. Aligning itself with scholarship on kinesthetic empathy in dance studies, it explores the ways in which we inhabit the movements of others inside and outside the theatre, and the ways these movements inhabit us. Because this book is an extension of my 1994 book on theatre phenomenology, Bodied Spaces: Phenomenology and Performance in Contemporary Drama, it owes a debt to those who have developed this field in the years since that book’
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