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082			_a792.01 _bELA
100			_aElam, Keir _993868
245			_aSemiotics of theatre and drama
250			_aEd.2
260			_aLondon _bRoutledge _c2007
300			_axii,260p.
505			_aContents 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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