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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1995
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication
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Physical Description:1 online resource (202 p.)
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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