Minds on stage Greek tragedy and cognition edited by Felix Budelmann and Ineke Sluiter ; with the assistance of Bob Corthals

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Budelmann, Felix, editor.

Sluiter, I. (Ineke), editor.

Series:

Cognitive classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognition in literature.

Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.

Greek drama (Tragedy).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Oxford Oxford University Press [2023]

Summary:

"Greek tragedy provides the richest of materials for cognition studies. It thrives on minds: the minds of characters, whose cognitive achievements and, more often, limitations are almost constantly in the spotlight, and those of the spectators, who know more than the characters but can themselves be subtly misdirected, have to come to terms with events that are deeply disturbing ideologically and existentially, and, most fundamentally, have to ‘suspend disbelief’ to turn a man with a mask into Helen of Troy. Both dimensions are well-represented in this volume, and often it is precisely the combination—character cognition as an object of audience cognition—that provides the critical fulcrum. This volume offers studies on mindreading by characters and audiences, the cognitive work by characters, in their attribution of causes, their memories, and their use of objects as tools for thinking, and the cognitive efforts made in spectating ancient drama, in joint attention, generic expectations, and the situated cognitions that help audiences and characters make sense of morally complex situations"--Publisher's description

Contents:

Cover

Minds on Stage: Greek Tragedy and Cognition

Copyright

Preface

Contents

List of Contributors

1. Introduction

1.1 Cognitive literary studies

1.2 Greek tragedy and cognition

1.3 Questions of methodology

1.3.1 Cognitive 'theory' and cognitive 'science': ideas or claims to firm knowledge?

1.3.2 Modes of variation: universality or cultural specificity?

1.3.3 The 'what' and the 'how': does cognitive criticism generate new readings?

1.3.4 Two-way traffic: can cognitive criticism give back to cognitive science?

1.4 The chapters

Acknowledgements

PART I. READING MINDS

2. Mindreading, Character, and Realism: The Case of Medea

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Reading real minds and/or minds on stage

2.3 Realism and character: the case of Medea

2.4 Medea's multifarious mind

Acknowledgements

3. Reading the Mind of Ajax

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The challenge of Ajax' 'deception speech'

3.3 Internal readers of Ajax' mind

3.4 Human minds in a divinely charged universe

3.5 Shifting mental states and the permanence of change

3.6 Conclusion: reading minds in Athenian tragedy

4. Space for Deliberation: Image Schemas, Metaphorical Reasoning, and the Dilemma of Pelasgus

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Literary criticism and cognitive poetics

4.3 Two models of metaphor comprehension

4.4 Metaphor and the mind of Pelasgus

4.5 Embodied experience and dramatic character

PART II. COGNITIVE WORK BY CHARACTERS

5. Attribution and Antigone

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Malle's attribution theory

5.3 Antigone: cause or reason?

5.4 Antigone's and Ismene's attributions

5.5 Antigone's valuing

5.6 Conclusion

6. 'Remember to What Sort of Man You Give this Favour': Looking Back on Sophocles' Ajax

6.1 Introduction

6.2 The workings of memory

6.3 Memories of the living Ajax

6.4 Debating the memory of Ajax

6.5 Odysseus and the possibility of impartial memory

6.6 Conclusion: looking at memory through Ajax

7. Thinking Through Things: Extended Cognition as a Consolatory Fiction in Greek Tragedy

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Partnering with knowledgeable objects in the Oresteia?

7.2.1 The house of Agamemnon

7.2.2 Electra thinking through things

7.3 Anthropomorphic thinking and embodied memory in Euripides' Heracles

7.4 Make-believe in drama: extended cognition as an 'as-if' fiction

7.4.1 Anthropomorphism as a cognitive reflex

7.5 Conclusion

PART III. PERFORMANCE, SPECTATING, AND COGNITION

8. Spectating Ancient Dramas: The Athenian Audience and its Emotional Response

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Theory of conceptual blending

8.3 Emotions of ancient audiences

8.4 Dynamic model of spectating

8.4.1 Interaction, contextualization, and separation

8.4.2 Affect and immersion

Mindreading, character, and realism: the case of Medea Evert van Emde Boas Reading the mind of Ajax Sheila Murnaghan Space for deliberation: image schemas, metaphorical reasoning, and the dilemma of Pelasgus Michael Carroll Attribution and Antigone Ruth Scodel 'Remember to What Sort of Man You Give this Favour': looking back on Sophocles' Ajax Lucy Van Essen-Fishman Thinking through things: extended cognition as a consolatory fiction in Greek tragedy Anne-Sophie Noel Spectating ancient dramas: the Athenian audience and its emotional response Hanna Goła̜b Gorgias' ἀπάτη, Sophocles’ Electra, and cognitive criticism Jonas Grethlein Seeing together: joint attention in Attic tragedy A. C. Duncan Generic expectations and the interpretation of Attic tragedy: some preliminary questions and cognitive considerations Seth L. Schein Situated cognition: Sophocles, Milgram, and the disobedient hero Bob Corthals and Ineke Sluiter

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed on May 17, 2024)

Other Format:

Print version Minds on stage

ISBN:

0191982458

9780191982453

0192888943

9780192888945

OCLC:

1355901909

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