The semiotics of theatre and drama / Keir Elam.
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TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002Edition: 2nd edDescription: xii, 260 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 9780415280174Subject(s): Drama | Theater -- Semiotics | Semiotics and literature | SemioticsDDC classification: 792.014 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Central Library, Sikkim University | 792.014 ELA/S (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 46220 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-249) and index.
1. Preliminaries: Semiotics and Poetics: The Semiotics Enterprise; How Many Semiotics?; The material. 2. Foundations: Signs in the Theatre: Prague structuralism and the theatrical sign; Typologies of the sign. 3. Theatrical Communication: Codes, Systems and the Performance Text: Elements of theatrical communication; Theatrical Systems and Codes; Theatrical competence: frame, convention and the role of the audience. 4. Dramatic Logic: The construction of the dramatic world; Dramatic action and time; Actant, dramatis persona and the dramatic model. 5. Dramatic Discourse: Dramatic Communication; Context and deixis; Universe of discourse and co-text; Speech acts; The said and the unsaid: implicatures and figures; Textuality; Towards a dramatological analysis. 6. Concluding Comments: Theatre, Drama, Semiotics: Dramatic Text/performance text; A united enterprise? Suggestions for further reading
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