Empathy as Dialogue in Theatre and Performance - Hardcover

Cummings, Lindsay B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1137593253 ISBN 13: 9781137593252

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

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Empathy has provoked equal measures of excitement and controversy in recent years. For some, empathy is crucial to understanding others, helping us bridge social and cultural differences. For others, empathy is nothing but a misguided assumption of access to the minds of others. In this book, Cummings argues that empathy comes in many forms, some helpful to understanding others and some detrimental. Tracing empathy’s genealogy through aesthetic theory, philosophy, psychology, and performance theory, Cummings illustrates how theatre artists and scholars have often overlooked the dynamic potential of empathy by focusing on its more "monologic" forms, in which spectators either project their point of view onto characters or passively identify with them. This book therefore explores how empathy is most effective when it functions as a dialogue, along with how theatre and performance can utilise the live, emergent exchange between bodies in space to encourage more dynamic, dialogic encounters between performers and audience. 

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Lindsay B. Cummings is Assistant Professor of Dramatic Arts at the University of Connecticut, USA.

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Empathy has provoked equal measures of excitement and controversy in recent years. For some, empathy is crucial to understanding others, helping us bridge social and cultural differences. For others, empathy is nothing but a misguided assumption of access to the minds of others. In this book, Cummings argues that empathy comes in many forms, some helpful to understanding others and some detrimental. Tracing empathy s genealogy through aesthetic theory, philosophy, psychology, and performance theory, Cummings illustrates how theatre artists and scholars have often overlooked the dynamic potential of empathy by focusing on its more monologic forms, in which spectators either project their point of view onto characters or passively identify with them. This book therefore explores how empathy is most effective when it functions as a dialogue, along with how theatre and performance can utilise the live, emergent exchange between bodies in space to encourage more dynamic, dialogic encounters between performers and audience. 

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1137593253
• ISBN 13: 9781137593252
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 230
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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