Performance Cognitive Theory And Devotional Culture
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Performance Cognitive Theory and Devotional Culture
Author | : J. Stevenson |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2010-05-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780230109070 |
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In Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture, Jill Stevenson uses cognitive theory to explore the layperson s physical encounter with live religious performances, and to argue that laypeople s interactions with other devotional media - such as books and art objects - may also have functioned like performance events. By revealing the remarkable resonance between cognitive science and medieval visual theories, Stevenson demonstrates how understanding medieval culture can enrich the study of performance generally. She concludes by applying her theories of medieval performance culture to contemporary religious forms, including creationist museums, Hell Houses, and megachurches.
Sensational Devotion
Author | : Jill Stevenson |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780472118731 |
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In Sensational Devotion, Jill Stevenson examines a range of evangelical performances, including contemporary Passion plays, biblical theme parks, Holy Land re-creations, creationist museums, and megachurches, to understand how they serve their evangelical audiences while shaping larger cultural and national dialogues. Such performative media support specific theologies and core beliefs by creating sensual, live experiences for believers, but the accessible, familiar forms they take and the pop culture motifs they employ also attract nonbelievers willing to “try out” these genres, even if only for curiosity’s sake. This familiarity not only helps these performances achieve their goals, but it also enables them to contribute to public dialogue about the role of religious faith in America. Stevenson shows how these genres are significant and influential cultural products that utilize sophisticated tactics in order to reach large audiences comprised of firm believers, extreme skeptics, and those in between. Using historical research coupled with personal visits to these various venues, the author not only critically examines these spaces and events within their specific religious, cultural, and national contexts, but also places them within a longer devotional tradition in order to suggest how they cultivate religious belief by generating vivid, sensual, affectively oriented, and individualized experiences.
Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Culture
Author | : Anderson Miranda Anderson |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2019-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781474438162 |
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This collection brings together 14 essays by international specialists in Medieval and Renaissance culture and provides a general and a period-specific introduction to distributed cognition and the cognitive humanities. The essays bring recent insights in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to bear on how cognition is seen as distributed across brain, body and world. The volume includes essays on law, history, drama, literature, art, music, philosophy, science and medicine, covering topics such as the mind, life and soul; the body and environment; the emotions; language and linguistic theories; theory of mind and interaction theory; the self and subjectivity; social, material and conceptual environments; the memory arts, orality and literacy; and literature and the arts.
Devotional Interaction in Medieval England and its Afterlives
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004365834 |
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The interdisciplinary volume Devotional Interaction in Medieval England and its Afterlives examines the interaction between medieval English worshippers and the material objects of their devotion, with chapters that extend the temporality of objects and buildings beyond the Middle Ages.
Thresholds of Medieval Visual Culture
Author | : Elina Gertsman,Jill Stevenson |
Publsiher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781843836971 |
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Interdisciplinary approaches to the material culture of the middle ages, from illuminated manuscripts to church architecture.
Cultures of Witnessing
Author | : Emma Lipton |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2022-04-22 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780812298468 |
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In Cultures of Witnessing, Emma Lipton considers the plays that were performed in the streets of York on the Feast of Corpus Christi from the late fourteenth century until the third quarter of the sixteenth and shows how civic performance and the legal theory and practice of witnessing promoted a shared sense of urban citizenship.
Affective Performance and Cognitive Science
Author | : Nicola Shaughnessy |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2013-12-05 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781408183694 |
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This book explores new developments in the dialogues between science and theatre and offers an introduction to a fast-expanding area of research and practice.The cognitive revolution in the humanities is creating new insights into the audience experience, performance processes and training. Scientists are collaborating with artists to investigate how our brains and bodies engage with performance to create new understanding of perception, emotion, imagination and empathy. Divided into four parts, each introduced by an expert editorial from leading researchers in the field, this edited volume offers readers an understanding of some of the main areas of collaboration and research: 1. Dances with Science 2. Touching Texts and Embodied Performance 3. The Multimodal Actor 4. Affecting Audiences Throughout its history theatre has provided exciting and accessible stagings of science, while contemporary practitioners are increasingly working with scientific and medical material. As Honour Bayes reported in the Guardian in 2011, the relationships between theatre, science and performance are 'exciting, explosive and unexpected'. Affective Performance and Cognitive Science charts new directions in the relations between disciplines, exploring how science and theatre can impact upon each other with reference to training, drama texts, performance and spectatorship. The book assesses the current state of play in this interdisciplinary field, facilitating cross disciplinary exchange and preparing the way for future studies.
ROMARD Research on Medieval and Renaissance Drama vol 51
Author | : Cora Dietl,Lofton L Durham ,Jody Enders ,Garrett PJ Epp ,Christina M Fitzgerald ,Elina Gertsman ,Anne G Graham ,Lisa Hopkins ,Pamela M King ,David Klausner ,Jelle Koopmans ,Katell Lavéant ,Ben Parsons ,Carol Symes |
Publsiher | : First Circle Publishing |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2013-08-22 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780991976010 |
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ROMARD is an academic journal devoted to the study and promotion of Medieval and Renaissance drama in Europe. Previously published under the title of Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama (RORD), the journal has been in publication since 1956. ROMARD is published annually at the University of Western Ontario. Manuscripts are submitted to the Editor, Mario Longtin, via email at [email protected]. For further details, please visit the ROMARD website at www.romard.org. Special Issue: Showcasing Opportunities Co-Edited by Jill Stevenson and Mario Longtin This volume consists of fourteen short essays, all tackling different aspects of drama observed through a variety of disciplines, theoretical perspectives, and/or methodologies. We asked contributors to begin their pieces by introducing a new critical approach, a new methodology, a specific problem in the field, or an operative link between disciplines that fosters productive connections. In some cases, this framing concept introduces a new concept, methodology, or theoretical approach to the field of early drama studies. In other instances, authors invite readers to reconsider an existing topic or theme from a new perspective. We further asked contributors to select one specific example from early drama and to analyze it critically, but briefly, in order to illustrate their framing concept. We encouraged authors to be bold and, in some cases, to leave questions unresolved. Consequently, this special issue of ROMARD aims to advance the study of early drama by capturing research and ideas in the making.