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Volume 17:7 July 2017
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Cognitive Approach for Comprehending the Art of Drama
with Special Reference to St. Joan

Vimala Anna Jacob, Research Scholar, M.A., M.Phil.


Abstract

Interpretation of texts is a cognitive activity. Cognitive science, which concerns thinking process, leads to the criticism of literary text. The application of Cognitive science in Literature and Performance studies is still a nascent school of thought. A trusting relationship is built up between the audience and characters on the stage through the process of developing empathy. When this empathy is evoked, the audience respond as they would do the corresponding situations in real life. Drama arouses aesthetic interest from the education it imparts and it is possible to foster aesthetic cognition and sensibility by viewing drama. G. B. Shaw expresses his point of view through various characters and he fixes the audience’s attention on exactly the detail, opinion or emotion he wants to emphasize in the play St, Joan. This is the success of the play St. Joan.

Keywords: Mirror neuron: A neuron that fires both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another. Thus, the neuron mirrors the behaviour of the other, as though the observer were itself acting.
Sensory motor skills: Activity involving both sensory & motor co-ordination in nerve centres.
Embodied knowledge: It is action oriented and consists of contextual practices. It is more of a social acquisition as how individuals interact in and interpret their environment which creates this non-explicit type of knowledge. In general, information our bodies know and use without conscious thought. Executed as routines, habits and tasks.

Introduction

Enormous thought goes into the production of texts and perhaps even more into interpreting them. Cognitive scientists, have much to learn from literary criticism, which examines the text in depth. Literary Criticism concerns the meanings of, in, and evoked by literary texts. Cognitive science concerns thinking, and extracting and evoking meanings, while reading and writing requires thinking. Hence, there is a wide expanse of ground common to literary criticism and cognitive science. We should explore at length what the author intended when in the process of writing down certain words and explore what interpretations of that sequence of words are consistent with the syntax and semantics of the language. (ie. of the community that uses it).

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Vimala Anna Jacob, M.A., M.Phil.
Associate Professor
Department of English
St. Mary’s College
Kottayam 686 032
Kerala
India
vimalaannajacob@gmail.com

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