Semiotics of theatre and drama
Elam, Keir
Semiotics of theatre and drama - Ed.2 - London Routledge 2007 - xii,260p.
Contents
General Editor's Preface ix
Acknowledgements xi
1. Preliminaries: Semiotics and Poetics 1
The Semiotics Enterprise 1
How Many Semiotics? 2
The material 3
2. Foundations: Signs in the Theatre 4
Prague structuralism and the theatrical sign 4
Typologies of the sign 17
3. Theatrical Communication: Codes, Systems and the Performance Text 28
Elements of theatrical communication 28
Theatrical Systems and Codes 43
Theatrical competence: frame, convention and the role of the audience 78
4. Dramatic Logic 88
The construction of the dramatic world 88
Dramatic action and time 105
Actant, dramatis persona and the dramatic model 114
5. Dramatic Discourse 123
Dramatic Communication 123
Context and deixis 125
Universe of discourse and co-text 135
Speech acts 142
The said and the unsaid: implicatures and figures 155
Textuality 162
Towards a dramatological analysis 167
6. Concluding Comments: Theatre, Drama, Semiotics 190
Dramatic Text/performance text 190
A united enterprise? 191
'POST'-SCRIPT: POST-SEMIOTICS, POSTHUMOUS SEMIOTICS, CLOSET SEMIOTICS 193
Suggestions for further reading 222
Bibliography 231
Index 251
9780415280181
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Semiotics of theatre and drama - Ed.2 - London Routledge 2007 - xii,260p.
Contents
General Editor's Preface ix
Acknowledgements xi
1. Preliminaries: Semiotics and Poetics 1
The Semiotics Enterprise 1
How Many Semiotics? 2
The material 3
2. Foundations: Signs in the Theatre 4
Prague structuralism and the theatrical sign 4
Typologies of the sign 17
3. Theatrical Communication: Codes, Systems and the Performance Text 28
Elements of theatrical communication 28
Theatrical Systems and Codes 43
Theatrical competence: frame, convention and the role of the audience 78
4. Dramatic Logic 88
The construction of the dramatic world 88
Dramatic action and time 105
Actant, dramatis persona and the dramatic model 114
5. Dramatic Discourse 123
Dramatic Communication 123
Context and deixis 125
Universe of discourse and co-text 135
Speech acts 142
The said and the unsaid: implicatures and figures 155
Textuality 162
Towards a dramatological analysis 167
6. Concluding Comments: Theatre, Drama, Semiotics 190
Dramatic Text/performance text 190
A united enterprise? 191
'POST'-SCRIPT: POST-SEMIOTICS, POSTHUMOUS SEMIOTICS, CLOSET SEMIOTICS 193
Suggestions for further reading 222
Bibliography 231
Index 251
9780415280181
792.01 / ELA