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Trusting Performance

Part of the Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230370753

ISBN: 978-1-349-59433-7

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Feb 17, 2016

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Chapter 1Introduction

Rokotnitz, Naomi

Pages: 1 –17

[Most people have experienced a significant betrayal at least once in their lives. We extended our friendship, love and trust and received in return a slap in the face or, worse, a stab in the back. People can often be selfish, manipulative, dishonest and deliberately hurtful. And yet people also...
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Chapter 2“It Is Required You Do Awake Your Faith”: Learning to Trust the Body through Performing The Winter’s Tale

Rokotnitz, Naomi

Pages: 19 –36

[Skepticism is part and parcel of “a bargain none of us struck.” There is no denying that human knowledge is limited, that there seem to be multiple, co-existing truths, and that these truths are also often in conflict.2 However, we are not necessarily, therefore, forced to resign ourselves to...
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Chapter 3“A Doubling of Immortality:” Cognitive Inter(con)textuality and Tom Stoppard’s Travesties

Rokotnitz, Naomi

Pages: 37 –65

[Skepticism can function as a safety net: protection against believing that which may be untrue. But Skepticism has its own inherent dangers, as evinced in Chapter 1 of this book. Many Postmodern theorists have embraced a particularly relativistic form of skepticism, which they inherited, by...
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Chapter 4From Empathy to Sympathy: Staging Change and Conciliation in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good

Rokotnitz, Naomi

Pages: 67 –96

[In 1788, Britain established a penal colony in New South Wales. By 1868, one hundred and sixty thousand convicts had been exiled to Australia. According to historical records, a few months after the first transportation arrived in the colony, a group of convicts was permitted to put on a play...
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Chapter 5“A Spiritual Dance:” Moisés Kaufman’s 33 Variations

Rokotnitz, Naomi

Pages: 97 –128

[The protagonist of 33 Variations is Dr. Katherine Brandt, is an elegant and respected musicologist in her late sixties.1 Though her field of expertise has been Ludwig van Beethoven, she betrays no signs of romantic or Romantic inclinations. She is evidently devoted to her work, but her...
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Chapter 6Conclusion

Rokotnitz, Naomi

Pages: 129 –132

[Traditionally it has been claimed that evidence gained through empathy is epistemologically suspect as it does not have a truth-value. And yet, as I have been arguing throughout this book, humans tend to trust empathy instinctively. Empathy is an automatic mechanism of direct identification; the...

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