Little Is Left to Tell": Beckett's Theater of Mind, Ohio Impromptu, and the New Cognitive Turn in Analyzing Drama (original) (raw)

2004

Abstract

The focus of this article is a further investigation into the already existing intersection of research in cognitive science and literary studies. Special attention will be paid to the specificity of the dramatic text, seen as both verbal and performed. Drama, a term which has traditionally been applied rather loosely to describe texts written for the theater, is characterized by dialogue between at least two actors. It presupposes conflict and its resolution; hence it is often linked to high emotional friction. Stylistic studies of dramatic works, both as text and as performance, have been scarce. (1) Most exhaustively until now theater has been studied by semioticians, who have commented not just on the linguistic aspects of a dramatic work but paid attention to the nonverbal modes of expression in this genre. My aim in this article is to utilize insights from the emerging field of cognitive poetics for an analysis of drama that engages its verbal and nonverbal aspects as well as ...

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