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Love, Fear, and Climate Change: Emotions in Drama and Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Peta Tait
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If the survival of human and nonhuman animals depends on challenging beliefs about our species' exploitation of nature, it also depends on posthumanist perspectives that question more widely the ways in which humans perceive and inhabit the environment emotionally. I argue here that drama can make a valuable contribution not only to the process of interpreting emotions but also to raising awareness that emotional feelings have material efects. he capacity of drama and its performance to grapple with emotional responses to climate change and with broader scientiic knowledge seems particularly prescient.

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Correspondents at Large
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PMLA , Volume 130 , Issue 5: Special Topic: Emotions , October 2015 , pp. 1501 - 1505
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2015

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