"Little is left to tell": Beckett's theater of mind, Ohio Impromptu, and the new cognitive turn in analyzing drama.

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This article argues that the emerging field of cognitive poetics, with its emphasis on experientiality and embodiment in meaning construction, is particularly well-suited to articulate the interpretive strategies necessary to make a unified sense of theater. In the past the dramatic text, seen as both written and performed, has been studied most exhaustively by semioticians. The disadvantages of the semiotic enterprise in the study of theater can be shown to stem from the semiotic reduction of all linguistic and nonlinguistic phenomena to systems of signs, thus largely ignoring the ...

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