Semiotics of theatre and drama

By:

Elam, Keir

Publication details: London Routledge 2007Edition: Ed.2Description: xii,260pISBN:

9780415280181

DDC classification:

792.01 ELA

Contents:

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

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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

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