{"product_id":"9780809390663","title":"Walking on Fire: The Shaping Force of Emotion in Writing Drama","description":"In this bold new way of looking at dramatic structure, Jim Linnell establishes the central role of emotional experience in the conception, execution, and reception of plays. \u003ci\u003eWalking on Fire: The Shaping Force of Emotion in Writing Drama\u003c\/i\u003e examines dramatic texts through the lens of human behavior to identify the joining of event and emotion in a narrative, defined by Linnell as emotional form.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Effectively building on philosophy, psychology, and critical theory in ways useful to both scholars and practitioners, Linnell unfolds the concept of emotional form as the key to understanding the central shaping force of drama. He highlights the Dionysian force of human emotion in the writer as the genesis for creative work and articulates its power to determine narrative outcomes and audience reaction.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWalking on Fire\u003c\/i\u003e contains writing exercises to open up playwrights to the emotional realities and challenges of their work. Additionally, each chapter offers case studies of traditional and nonlinear plays in the known canon that allow readers to evaluate the construction of these works and the authors’ practices and intentions through an xamination of the emotional form embedded in the central characters’ language, thoughts, and behaviors. The plays discussed include Henrik Ibsen’s \u003ci\u003eA Doll’s House\u003c\/i\u003e, William Shakespeare’s \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e, Athol Fugard’s “\u003ci\u003eMASTER HAROLD”. . .and the boy\u003c\/i\u003es, Donald Margulies’s \u003ci\u003eThe Loman Family Picnic\u003c\/i\u003e, Harold Pinter’s \u003ci\u003eThe Birthday Party\u003c\/i\u003e, and Tony Kushner’s \u003ci\u003eAngels in America\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Walking on Fire\u003c\/i\u003e opens up new conversations about content and emotion for writers and offers exciting answers to the questions of why we make drama and why we connect to it. Linnell’s userfriendly theory and passionate approach create a framework for understanding the links between the writer’s work in creating the text, the text itself, and the audience’s engagement.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Southern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118566523120,"sku":"9780809390663","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780809390663_p0.jpg?v=1763727871","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780809390663","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}