Theatre Semiotics : : Text and Staging in Modern Theatre / / Fernando de Toro.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: de Toro, Fernando,
• MitwirkendeR: Marinis, Marco De,; Toro, Fernando de,; Valdés, Mario,
• TeilnehmendeR: Valdes, Mario.
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (202 p.)

Theatre is composed of a multitude of signifying systems that have a dual function: as literary practice and as performance practice. Fernando de Toro carefully considers the multiple and complex components which constitute the relationships between a text, its concretization as performance, and its reception by the audience in this translation and revision of his Semi3/4tica del teatro: Del texto a la puesta en escena. He focuses on discourse, textuality, semiosis, reception, actantial functions, and history; this comprehensive overview of the various semiotic approaches is placed in the context of modern European, North American, and Latin American theatre. De Toro begins with an examination of theatre discourse as linguistic expression and as semiosis, and differentiates theatre discourse from other forms of literary discourse and performance. He then thoroughly explores the relationship between the dramatic text and the performance text. A chapter devoted to theatre semiotics establishes how signification functions in drama and performance, in terms of Charles Sanders Peirce's trichotomy (icon, index, symbol). Final chapters focus on theatre reception (the emitter and receptor); the actantial model, and how it has evolved; and a semiological reflection on the history of the theatre. Theatre Semiotics provides a thorough argument for the place and the necessity of semiotics within the interpretive process of theatre.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- FOREWORD TO THE SPANISH EDITION -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER I. THEATRE DISCOURSE -- I. THE NOTION OF DISCOURSE -- II. THEATRE DISCOURSE -- III. FUNCTIONS OF THEATRE DISCOURSE -- IV. SPECIFICATION OF THEATRE DISCOURSE -- ENDNOTES CHAPTER I -- CHAPTER II. TEXT, DRAMATIC TEXT, PERFORMANCE TEXT -- I. TEXT -- II. THE DRAMATIC TEXT -- III. PERFORMANCE TEXT -- ENDNOTES CHAPTER II -- CHAPTER III. THEATRE SEMIOTICS -- I. SEMIOSIS -- II. NATURE OF THE THEATRE SIGN -- III. THE ICON, THE INDEX, AND THE SYMBOL ACCORDING TO PEIRCE -- IV. THE ICON, INDEX AND SYMBOL AT WORK IN THEATRE -- V. THEATRE REFERENTIALITY -- ENDNOTES CHAPTER III -- CHAPTER IV. THEATRE RECEPTION -- I. RECEPTION THEORY -- II. THEATRE RECEPTION -- III. NEW PERSPECTIVES -- ENDNOTES CHAPTER IV -- CHAPTER V. TOWARDS AN ACTANTIAL MODEL FOR THEATRE -- I. BACKGROUND -- II. THE ACTANTIAL MODEL -- ENDNOTES CHAPTER V -- CHAPTER VI. THEATRE HISTORY AND SEMIOTICS -- I. GENERAL BACKGROUND -- II. THE CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS IN HISTORIC RESEARCH -- III. THEORY OF LITERARY HISTORY IN LATIN AMERICA: ONE EXAMPLE -- IV. THEORETICAL PROPOSAL -- V. METHODOLOGY -- ENDNOTES CHAPTER VI -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- BOOKS AND SPECIAL ISUUE JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THEATRE SEMIOTICS AND THEATRE THEORY