Theatre, Performance and Cognition

List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Rhonda Blair and Amy Cook Part 1 Cognitive Linguistics, Theatre and Performance 1 Multimodality and Theatre: Material Objects, Bodies and Language, by Barbara Dancygier (The University of British Columbia, Canada) 2 Doth Not Brutus Bootless Kneel? Kneeling, Cognition and Destructive Plasticity in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, by Laura Seymour (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) 3 Performance, Irony and Viewpoint in Language, by Vera Tobin (Case Western Reserve University, USA A Response: The Performing Mind, by Mark Turner (Case Western Reserve University, USA) Part 2 Bodies in Performance 4 The Olympic Actor: Improving Actor Training and Performance Through Sports Psychology, by Neal Utterback (Juniata College, USA) 5 Becoming Elsewhere: ArtsCross and the (Re)location of Performer Cognition, by Edward C. Warburton (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) 6 Training, Insight and Intuition in Creative Flow, by Christopher J. Jackman (University of Toronto, Canada) A Response: The Body in Mind, by Catherine J. Stevens (University of Western Sydney, Australia) Part 3 Situated Cognition and Dynamic Systems: Cognitive Ecologies 7 Distributed Cognition, Mindful Bodies and the Arts of Acting, by Evelyn B. Tribble (University of Otago, New Zealand) 8 The Historical Body Map: Cultural Pressures on Embodied Cognition, by Sarah E. McCarroll (Georgia Southern University, USA) 9 Another Way of Looking: Reflexive Technologies and HowcThey Change the World, by Matt Hayler (University of Birmingham, UK) A Response: Mapping the Prenoetic Dynamics of Performance, by Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis, USA, and University of Wollongong, Australia) After Words Appendix: Abstracts of a Few Influential References Notes References Index