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"Forms of Emotion analyses how drama, theatre and contemporary performance present emotion and its human and nonhuman diversity. This book explores the emotions, emotional feelings, mood, and affect, which make up a spectrum of 'emotion', to illuminate theatrical knowledge and practice and reflect the distinctions and debates in philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, and other disciplines. This study asserts that specific forms of emotion are intentionally unified in drama, theatre, and performance to convey meaning, counteract separation and subversively champion emotional freedom. The book progressively shows that the dramatic and theatrical representation of the nonhuman reveals how human dominance is offset by emotional connection with birds, animals,and the natural environment. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers interested in the emotions and affect in dramatic literature, theatre studies, performance studies, psychology, and philosophy as well as artists working with emotionally expressive performance"--

Forms of Emotion analyses how drama, theatre and contemporary performance present emotion and its human and nonhuman diversity.



Forms of Emotion analyses how drama, theatre and contemporary performance present emotion and its human and nonhuman diversity.

This book explores the emotions, emotional feelings, mood, and affect, which make up a spectrum of ‘emotion’, to illuminate theatrical knowledge and practice and reflect the distinctions and debates in philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, and other disciplines. This study asserts that specific forms of emotion are intentionally unified in drama, theatre, and performance to convey meaning, counteract separation and subversively champion emotional freedom. The book progressively shows that the dramatic and theatrical representation of the nonhuman reveals how human dominance is offset by emotional connection with birds, animals, and the natural environment.

This book will be of great interest to students and researchers interested in the emotions and affect in dramatic literature, theatre studies, performance studies, psychology, and philosophy as well as artists working with emotionally expressive performance.

List of figures
viii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1(22)
Chapter summaries
8(2)
Framing the emotions, emotional feeling, mood and affect
10(9)
Performing is not feeling that emotion
19(4)
1 Affect theory and performance intention
23(26)
Distinctions in performance
24(2)
Feeling divided
26(6)
Affect currents
32(2)
Contested intentions
34(3)
Live --- in theory
37(4)
Impersonal affect and personal feeling
41(2)
Presence and transmission
43(2)
Resistance
45(2)
Formless affect and aesthetic form
47(2)
2 Judging pity, fear and humanness
49(22)
Pity and fear in action
49(5)
Fear of shame
54(3)
Opposition shocks
57(3)
Wonder and catharsis
60(2)
Mimetic natures
62(3)
Towards compassion
65(2)
Fear and animalness
67(4)
3 Appraising emotional feeling
71(20)
Talk of feeling
71(4)
Navigating obstruction
75(1)
Substitute passions
76(4)
Appraisal of emotional feeling
80(2)
Ugly metaphor
82(3)
Inexplicable feeling
85(1)
Cruel structures of colonized feeling
86(5)
4 Performing moods, tears and bodily phenomena
91(24)
Theatrical exchange
91(4)
Modernist convergence
95(4)
Acting an inner self
99(4)
Imagined spaces of longing and happiness
103(3)
Doing bodily affect
106(3)
Performing freedom
109(2)
Unifying aesthetic moods
111(4)
5 Political belief and social cognition of emotions
115(26)
Contesting courage
115(9)
Acting science and the brain---body
124(4)
Trauma's affect
128(2)
Unifying empathy
130(5)
Theatre's emotional economy
135(3)
Emotional feeling as belief
138(3)
6 En/Acting diverse emotional freedoms
141(21)
Rule-breaking paradox
141(4)
Love's force fields
145(4)
Human right to emotional feeling
149(6)
Politics of fear
155(2)
Rage against postemotional denial
157(3)
Theatrical freedoms
160(2)
7 Animals and anthropocentric emotionalism
162(17)
Comic surrogates
163(4)
Tragic symbols
167(4)
Sensory body insensitivity
171(3)
Performing emotional connections
174(5)
8 Enveloping the nonhuman: Contemporary indigenous performance
179(16)
Collaborating traditions
180(1)
Continuities in storytelling
181(3)
Bodily perceiving movement
184(3)
Unity in Bangarra's Dark Emu
187(2)
Enveloping affect and emotional movement
189(2)
Feeling knowledge and nonhuman time
191(4)
9 Prosodies of affect and emotional climates
195(22)
Walking, trusting
196(6)
Weather worlds
202(4)
Motivating
206(4)
Breathing
210(4)
Sharing
214(3)
Conclusion: Emotional freedom in performance 217(4)
References 221(24)
Index 245
Peta Tait is Professor of Theatre and Drama at La Trobe University, Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.