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1 online resource (218 pages) |
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Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication |
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Toronto studies in semiotics and communication.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- FOREWORD TO THE SPANISH EDITION -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER I: THEATRE DISCOURSE -- I. The Notion of Discourse -- II. Theatre Discourse -- A) Speaker/Hearer -- B) Enunciative Situation/Utterance -- C) Deixis/Anaphora -- III. Functions of Theatre Discourse -- A) Functions of Language in Theatre -- B) Functions of the Actor's Discourse -- IV. Specification of Theatre Discourse -- Notes -- CHAPTER II: TEXT, DRAMATIC TEXT, PERFORMANCE TEXT -- I. Text -- A) The Semiological View -- B) The Classical View -- II. The Dramatic Text -- A) Textual Function -- B) Stage Function -- III. Performance Text -- A) Production Text -- B) Performance Text -- Notes -- CHAPTER III: THEATRE SEMIOTICS -- I. Semiosis -- A) The Notion of Semiotics -- B) The Various Versions of Sign -- II. The Nature of the Theatre Sign -- A) Signs of Signs -- B) The Mobility of the Theatre Sign -- C) Redundancy of the Theatre Sign -- III. The Icon, the Index, the Symbol According to Peirce -- A) The Icon -- B) The Index -- C) The Symbol -- IV. The Icon, the Index, and the Symbol at Work in Theatre -- A) Iconic Function -- B) Indexical Function -- C) Symbolic Function -- V. Theatre Referentiality -- A) Referent/Reference -- B) Theatre Referentiality -- Notes -- CHAPTER IV: THEATRE RECEPTION -- I. Reception Theory -- A) Places of Indetermination -- B) Objectivization -- C) Actualization -- D) Concretization -- E) Horizon of Expectation -- II. Theatre Reception -- A) Mode of Production and Reception -- B) Directorial Concretization -- C) Spectatorial Concretization -- D) Concretization Process -- III. New Perspectives -- A) Object of Study -- B) Levels of Receptive Activity -- C) Methodology -- Notes -- CHAPTER V: TOWARDS AN ACTANTIAL MODEL FOR THEATRE -- I. Background -- II. The Actantial Model -- A) Subject/Object |
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B) Sender/Receiver -- C) Helper/Opponent -- D) Actants, Actors, Roles -- E) Sequences -- Notes -- CHAPTER VI: THEATRE HISTORY AND SEMIOTICS -- I. General Background -- II. The Current State of Affairs in Historical Research -- III. Literary History in Latin America: One Example -- A) The Generational Method and Literary Currents -- B) Periodization -- IV. Theoretical Proposal -- A) Formal Level -- B) Contextual Level -- V. Methodology -- Notes -- BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| Summary |
Theatre Semiotics provides a thorough argument for the place and the necessity of semiotics within the interpretive process of theatre |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Theater -- Semiotics.
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Theater -- Semiotics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Valdes, Mario
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| ISBN |
9781442682597 |
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1442682590 |
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