Books
- Awards Coming Soon New at Macmillan Top Sellers Awards New at Macmillan Top Sellers Awards New at Macmillan Top Sellers Books for First-Year Reading Course Favorites Featured
  
  Arts and Photography Biography and Memoirs Business and Investing Comics and Graphic Novels Cooking, Food and Wine Crafts Entertainment Health, Mind & Body
  
  History Home and Garden Literature and Fiction Mystery and Thrillers Nonfiction Outdoors Parenting and Families Poetry
  
  Reference Religion and Spirituality Romance Science Science Fiction and Fantasy Sports Travel
  Children and Teens Palgrave Scholarly and Reference
  
  All Categories
  
  China--A Historical and Political Perspective Christmas Books Classic Sports Books El Dia de los Ninos Great Teen Books on Audio Halloween Books
  All Collections
Authors
- Tours & Events All Authors
Publishers
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux FSG Hardcovers FSG Paperbacks Hill & Wang Faber & Faber First Second Henry Holt & Co. Henry Holt Hardcovers Henry Holt Paperbacks Metropolitan Books Times Books Macmillan Audio Behind the Wheel Nature Publishing Group Palgrave Macmillan
  
  Picador Quick and Dirty Tips Scientific American St. Martin's Press Minotaur Books Thomas Dunne Books Tor/Forge Tor Books Forge Books Orb Books Tor/Seven Seas Distributed Publishers
  Macmillan Higher Education Bedford/St. Martin’s W.H. Freeman
  
  Worth Publishers BFW High School i>clicker Hayden-McNeil Palgrave Macmillan Trade Books For Courses
  FSG Books for Young Readers Feiwel & Friends Holt Books for Young Readers Kingfisher Roaring Brook Priddy Books Starscape/Tor Teen Square Fish Young Listeners Macmillan Kids
Services
- About Macmillan Publishers Booksellers Academic Library Catalogs Macmillan Speakers

Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance

Series Editors: Bruce McConachie and Blakey Vermeule

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.

BRUCE MCCONACHIE is Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, University of Pittsburgh.

BLAKEY VERMEULE is Associate Professor of English at Stanford University.

Displaying 1-10 of 10

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	Graphing Jane Austen The Evolutionary Basis of Literary Meaning Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance Joseph Carroll, Jonathan Gottschall, John A. Johnson and Daniel J. Kruger Palgrave Macmillan Why have we evolved to delight in telling stories and listening to them? Can literary meaning be discovered through data? What is more important to the...

Hardcover : $80.00 Buy	Trusting Performance A Cognitive Approach to Embodiment in Drama Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance Naomi Rokotnitz Palgrave Macmillan Argues for the exploration of drama as a conduit to deep emotional learning that has the ability to change the somatic identity of performers and audiences...

Trade Paperback : $27.00 Buy	Engaging Audiences A Cognitive Approach to Spectating in the Theatre Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance Bruce McConachie Palgrave Macmillan Engaging Audiences provides an insightful introduction to spectatorship from the perspective of cognitive studies. Using performances of several plays and a...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Toward a General Theory of Acting Cognitive Science and Performance Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance John Lutterbie Palgrave Macmillan Toward a General Theory of Acting explores the actor’s art through the lens of Dynamic Systems Theory and recent findings in the Cognitive Sciences. An...

Hardcover : $80.00 Buy	Cognition in the Globe Attention and Memory in Shakespeare's Theatre Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance Evelyn B. Tribble Palgrave Macmillan Shakespeare’s company coped with an enormous mnemonic load, performing up to six different plays a week. How did they do it? Cognition in the Globe addresses...

Hardcover : $80.00 Buy	Evolving Hamlet Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance Angus Fletcher Palgrave Macmillan Where science has often been used to explore the questions raised by art, this book does the reverse, suggesting that art can address a problem raised by...

Hardcover : $79.00 Buy	Shakespearean Neuroplay Reinvigorating the Study of Dramatic Texts and Performance through Cognitive Science Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance Amy Cook Palgrave Macmillan Through a lucid explanation of contemporary science and a rich exploration of Shakespeare's work both now and then, Shakespearean Neuroplay provides a...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture Sensual Piety in Late Medieval York Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance Jill Stevenson Palgrave Macmillan In Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture, Jill Stevenson uses cognitive theory to explore the layperson’s physical encounter with live...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	The Public Intellectualism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and W.E.B. Du Bois Emotional Dimensions of Race and Reform Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance Ryan Schneider Palgrave Macmillan In The Public Intellectualism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and W.E.B. Du Bois, Ryan Schneider shows how and why two of America’s most influential public...

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Literature, Science, and a New Humanities Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance Jonathan Gottschall Palgrave Macmillan Literary studies are at a tipping point. ." There is broad agreement that the discipline is in "crisis"--that it is aimless, that its intellectual energy is...

Displaying 1-10 of 10

RELATED LISTS

Supplemental reading in Film and Performance

We publish in a wide range of fields, at all levels from undergraduate textbooks to research...

Sign up to receive information about new releases, author appearances, special offers, all related to your favorite books and authors.
Sign Up Now!

You May Also Be Interested In

Trade Paperback : 35.00 Buy

The Decline and Fall of Europe

Francesco M. Bongiovanni
Palgrave Macmillan

IS EUROPE DOOMED? What if it fell apart? What if the Eurozone crisis was just the beginning of what's in store for Europe? What if there were other destructive...

Trade Paperback : 17.00 Buy

More formats
eBook

Cradle of Gold
The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Machu Picchu

Christopher Heaney
Palgrave Macmillan

In 1911, a young Peruvian boy led an American explorer and Yale historian named Hiram Bingham into the ancient Incan citadel of Machu Picchu. Hidden amidst the...

Hardcover : 26.00 Buy

More formats
eBook

Masters of the Planet
The Search for Our Human Origins

MacSci

Ian Tattersall
Palgrave Macmillan

50,000 years ago – merely a blip in evolutionary time – our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their...