Tragic Props And Cognitive Function
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Tragic Props And Cognitive Function
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Author : Colleen Chaston
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010
Tragic Props And Cognitive Function written by Colleen Chaston and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Psychology categories.
By applying aspects of cognitive psychology to a study of three key tragic props, this book examines the importance of visual imagery in ancient Greek tragedy. The shield, the urn and the mask are props which serve as controls for investigating the connection between visual imagery and the spectators' intellectual experience of tragic drama. As vehicles for conceptual change the props point to a function of imagery in problem solving. Connections between the visual and the cognitive in tragedy, particularly through image shape and its potential for various meanings, add a new perspective to scholarship on the role of the visual in ancient performance. These connections also add weight to the importance of imagery in contemporary problem solving and creative thought.
Tragic Props And Cognitive Function
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Author : Colleen Mary Chaston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Tragic Props And Cognitive Function written by Colleen Mary Chaston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Classicism categories.
Athenian Tragedy In Performance
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Author : Melinda Powers
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2014-05-01
Athenian Tragedy In Performance written by Melinda Powers and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-01 with Performing Arts categories.
Foregrounding critical questions about the tension between the study of drama as literature versus the study of performance, Melinda Powers investigates the methodological problems that arise in some of the latest research on ancient Greek theatre. She examines key issues and debates about the fifth-century theatrical space, audience, chorus, performance style, costuming, properties, gesture, and mask, but instead of presenting a new argument on these topics, Powers aims to understand her subject better by exploring the shared historical problems that all scholars confront as they interpret and explain Athenian tragedy. A case study of Euripides’s Bacchae, which provides more information about performance than any other extant tragedy, demonstrates possible methods for reconstructing the play’s historical performance and also the inevitable challenges inherent in that task, from the limited sources and the difficulty of interpreting visual material, to the risks of conflating actor with character and extrapolating backward from contemporary theatrical experience. As an inquiry into the study of theatre and performance, an introduction to historical writing, a reference for further reading, and a clarification of several general misconceptions about Athenian tragedy and its performance, this historiographical analysis will be useful to specialists, practitioners, and students alike.
Theatre Props And Civic Identity In Athens 458 405 Bc
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Author : Rosie Wyles
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-10-01
Theatre Props And Civic Identity In Athens 458 405 Bc written by Rosie Wyles and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-01 with Drama categories.
This book answers the question 'How did Athenian drama shape ideas about civic identity?' through the medium of three case studies focusing on props. Traditional responses to the question have overlooked the significance of props which were symbolically implicated in Athenian ideology, yet the key objects explored in this study (voting urns and pebbles, swords, and masks) each carried profound connections to Athenian civic identity while also playing important roles as props on the fifth-century stage. Playwrights exploited the powerful dynamic generated from the intersection between the 'social lives' (off-stage existence in society) and 'stage lives' (handling in theatre) of these objects to enhance the dramatic effect of their plays as well as the impact of these performances on society. The exploration of the 'stage lives' of these objects across comedy, tragedy, and satyr drama reveals much about generic interdependence and distinction. Meanwhile the consideration of iconography representing the objects' lives outside the theatre sheds light on drama's powerful interplay with art. Essential reading for scholars and students of ancient Greek history, culture, and drama, the innovative approach and insightful analysis contained in this volume will also be of interest to researchers in the fields of Theatre Studies, Art History, and Cultural Studies.
Aristophanes And His Tragic Muse
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Author : Stephanie Nelson
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-02-15
Aristophanes And His Tragic Muse written by Stephanie Nelson and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Despite the many studies of Greek comedy and tragedy separately, scholarship has generally neglected the relation of the two. And yet the genres developed together, were performed together, and influenced each other to the extent of becoming polar opposites. In Aristophanes and His Tragic Muse, Stephanie Nelson considers this opposition through an analysis of how the genres developed, by looking at the tragic and comic elements in satyr drama, and by contrasting specific Aristophanes plays with tragedies on similar themes, such as the individual, the polis, and the gods. The study reveals that tragedy’s focus on necessity and a quest for meaning complements a neglected but critical element in Athenian comedy: its interest in freedom, and the ambivalence of its incompatible visions of reality.
The Materialities Of Greek Tragedy
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Author : Mario Telò
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-06-14
The Materialities Of Greek Tragedy written by Mario Telò and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-14 with Literary Collections categories.
Situated within contemporary posthumanism, this volume offers theoretical and practical approaches to materiality in Greek tragedy. Established and emerging scholars explore how works of the three major Greek tragedians problematize objects and affect, providing fresh readings of some of the masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. The so-called new materialisms have complemented the study of objects as signifiers or symbols with an interest in their agency and vitality, their sensuous force and psychosomatic impact-and conversely their resistance and irreducible aloofness. At the same time, emotion has been recast as material "affect,†? an intense flow of energies between bodies, animate and inanimate. Powerfully contributing to the current critical debate on materiality, the essays collected here destabilize established interpretations, suggesting alternative approaches and pointing toward a newly robust sense of the physicality of Greek tragedy.
Brill S Companion To Euripides 2 Vols
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Author : Andreas Markantonatos
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-08-31
Brill S Companion To Euripides 2 Vols written by Andreas Markantonatos and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-31 with History categories.
Brill’s Companion to Euripides, as well as presenting a comprehensive and authoritative guide to understanding Euripides and his masterworks, provides scholars and students with compelling fresh perspectives upon a broad range of issues in the field of Euripidean studies.
The Structure And Performance Of Euripides Helen
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Author : C. W. Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-12-04
The Structure And Performance Of Euripides Helen written by C. W. Marshall and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-04 with Drama categories.
In his detailed study of Euripides' play, Helen, C. W. Marshall expands our understanding of Athenian tragedy and Classical performance.
Performance In Greek And Roman Theatre
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Author : George Harrison
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2013-03-15
Performance In Greek And Roman Theatre written by George Harrison and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Drawing on insights from various disciplines (philology, archaeology, art) as well as from performance and reception studies, this volume shows how a heightened awareness of performance can enhance our appreciation of Greek and Roman theatre.
Theatrocracy
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Author : Peter Meineck
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-14
Theatrocracy written by Peter Meineck and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-14 with History categories.
Theatrocracy is a book about the power of the theatre, how it can affect the people who experience it, and the societies within which it is embedded. It takes as its model the earliest theatrical form we possess complete plays from, the classical Greek theatre of the fifth century BCE, and offers a new approach to understanding how ancient drama operated in performance and became such an influential social, cultural, and political force, inspiring and being influenced by revolutionary developments in political engagement and citizen discourse. Key performative elements of Greek theatre are analyzed from the perspective of the cognitive sciences as embodied, live, enacted events, with new approaches to narrative, space, masks, movement, music, words, emotions, and empathy. This groundbreaking study combines research from the fields of the affective sciences – the study of human emotions – including cognitive theory, neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, psychiatry, and cognitive archaeology, with classical, theatre, and performance studies. This book revisits what Plato found so unsettling about drama – its ability to produce a theatrocracy, a "government" of spectators – and argues that this was not a negative but an essential element of Athenian theatre. It shows that Athenian drama provided a place of alterity where audiences were exposed to different viewpoints and radical perspectives. This perspective was, and is, vital in a freethinking democratic society where people are expected to vote on matters of state. In order to achieve this goal, the theatre offered a dissociative and absorbing experience that enhanced emotionality, deepened understanding, and promoted empathy. There was, and still is, an urgent imperative for theatre.