Theatre, Performance and Cognition

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction Rhonda Blair and Amy Cook
Part 1 Cognitive Linguistics, Theatre and Performance
1 Multimodality and Theatre: Material Objects, Bodies and Language, by Barbara Dancygier (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
2 Doth Not Brutus Bootless Kneel? Kneeling, Cognition and Destructive Plasticity in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, by Laura Seymour (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
3 Performance, Irony and Viewpoint in Language, by Vera Tobin (Case Western Reserve University, USA
A Response: The Performing Mind, by Mark Turner (Case Western Reserve University, USA)

Part 2 Bodies in Performance
4 The Olympic Actor: Improving Actor Training and Performance Through Sports Psychology, by Neal Utterback (Juniata College, USA)
5 Becoming Elsewhere: ArtsCross and the (Re)location of Performer Cognition, by Edward C. Warburton (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
6 Training, Insight and Intuition in Creative Flow, by Christopher J. Jackman (University of Toronto, Canada)
A Response: The Body in Mind, by Catherine J. Stevens (University of Western Sydney, Australia)

Part 3 Situated Cognition and Dynamic Systems: Cognitive Ecologies
7 Distributed Cognition, Mindful Bodies and the Arts of Acting, by Evelyn B. Tribble (University of Otago, New Zealand)
8 The Historical Body Map: Cultural Pressures on Embodied Cognition, by Sarah E. McCarroll (Georgia Southern University, USA)
9 Another Way of Looking: Reflexive Technologies and HowcThey Change the World, by Matt Hayler (University of Birmingham, UK)
A Response: Mapping the Prenoetic Dynamics of Performance, by Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis, USA, and University of Wollongong, Australia)

After Words
Appendix: Abstracts of a Few Influential References
Notes
References
Index