The Semiotics of Performance

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ISBN: 9780253316868 | 0253316863
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/1/1993

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"The book... succeeds at refining elements in the problem that semiotics and theater represent to and for one another." -- Choice"The Semiotics of Performance surprisingly retains its revelatory freshness, and actually opens up areas of reseach that could very well supply new incentives for further probing into what semiotics can offer to the study of theatre." -- Theatre Survey

Introduction: Theater Or Semiotics	p. 1
The Textual Analysis of Performance	p. 2
From Structuralism to the Pragmatics of the Text	p. 3
Enunciation, Intertextuality, and Reception	p. 4
Textual Analysis as a Multidisciplinary Approach	p. 6
Epistemological Limits	p. 9
Semiotics and Theater	p. 10
Dramatic Text and Mise-En-Scene	p. 15
Reasons for a Misunderstanding	p. 15
A Critique of the Conception of the Dramatic Text as a "Constant" or "Deep Structure" of Performance	p. 17
Language and Metalanguage, Text and Metatext	p. 20
Virtual Mise-en-Scene and Real Mise-en-Scene	p. 21
The Irreversibility of Theatrical Transcoding	p. 26
Toward a Definition of the Dramatic Genre	p. 30
Dramatic Discourse	p. 34
The Dramatic Text as "Instructions for Use"	p. 37
The Performance Text	p. 47
Performance as Text	p. 47
Theatrical Performance: A Definition	p. 48
Completeness and Coherence of the Performance Text	p. 56
The Performance Text: Between Presence and Absence	p. 62
The Double Heterogeneity of the Performance Text	p. 77
Performance Texts Shorter or Longer than One Performance	p. 78
Co-textual and Contextual Aspects	p. 80
The Textual Structure of Performance	p. 83
Multiple Systems and Single Systems	p. 83
Degrees of Dynamism in the Textual Structure of Performance	p. 85
Partial Structures and Macrostructures	p. 88
Multiple Interpretations, Multiple Structures	p. 90
Analysis/Reading/Criticism	p. 93
Performance Codes and Theatrical Conventions	p. 97
The Concept of "Code" in Relation to Theatrical Performance	p. 97
Decoding, Comprehension, Interpretation	p. 98
Classification according to Codes and Classification according to Expressive Material	p. 100
Theatrical and Nontheatrical Meanings	p. 103
Performance Codes (in the Strict Sense)	p. 104
Theatrical Conventions	p. 106
The Performance Text as an Example of Invention	p. 116
Performance Text, Cultural Context, and Inter Textual Practices	p. 121
The Performance Text in the General Text: The Cultural Roots of Codes and Conventions	p. 121
Aesthetic and Nonaesthetic Codes: From Culture to Art and Back	p. 124
Francastel: The Aesthetic Text as Montage of Cultural Objects	p. 126
Types of Theatrical Intertextuality	p. 131
Toward a Pragmatics of Theatrical Communication	p. 137
The Performance Context	p. 137
Communication in the Theater	p. 139
The Kind and Degree of Communication in Performance	p. 142
Theatrical Manipulation	p. 144
Action/Fiction: The Performance Text as a Macro-Speech Act	p. 150
Theater beyond Simulation and Negation	p. 154
The Spectator's Task	p. 158
The Current State of Research on Theatrical Reception	p. 158
Research on Reception outside of Theater	p. 161
The Model Spectator: "Closed" Spectators and "Open" Spectators	p. 165
Theatrical Competence	p. 171
Theatrical Genre as a Textual Type	p. 171
Pragmatic Aspects of Theatrical Genres	p. 180
Avant-Garde Theater as Metalinguistic Manipulation of the Performance Context	p. 182
Grammaticality, Acceptability, and Appropriateness of the Performance Text	p. 184
Notes	p. 189
Bibliography	p. 237
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