Title: Between intentionality and affect: on Jan Mukařovský's theory of reception
Source document: Theatralia. 2014, vol. 17, iss. 2, pp. 24-40
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24-40
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ISSN1803-845X (print)2336-4548 (online)
Stable URL (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/130875
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Abstract(s)
Erin Hurley and Sara Warner in their insightful study "Affect/Performance/Politics" (2012) remind us that humanities and social sciences today experience a new sweep of theoretical inquiry, focusing on studying affect as a leading mechanism of our cognition and communication, as well as making and receiving art products. This paper takes this theoretical proposition further. I argue that although the theory of affect is still struggling to find its own methodology of textual and performance analysis, when it is paired with semiotic approaches in theatre scholarship, it can offer interesting insights on how theatrical performance capitalizes on its built-in structural or artistic intentionality – Jan Mukařovský's semantic gesture - to evoke the audience's emotional responses.
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[17] MUSE, John H. 2012. Performance and the Pace of Empathy. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism (2012): 2: 173‒88.
[18] PESCHEL, Lisa. 2012. "Structures of Feeling" as Methodology and the Re-emergence of Holocaust Survivor Testimony in 1960s Czechoslovakia. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 26 (2012): 2: 161–172. | DOI 10.1353/dtc.2012.0015
[19] RANCIÈRE, Jacques. The Emancipated Spectator. Trans. Gregory Elliot. London/New York: Verso, 2009.
[20] RUSH, Ormond. 1997. The Reception of Doctrine: An Appropriation of Hans Robert Jauss' Reception Aesthetics and Literary Hermeneutics. Rome: Georgian University Press, 1997.
[21] STEINER, Peter. 1984. Production versus Reception: The Esthetic Axiologies of Otakar Zich and Jan Mukařovský. In Benjamin A. Stolz, I. R. Titunik and L. Doležel (eds.). Language and Literary Theory, in Honor of Ladislav Matejka. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1984: 527‒34.