Theatre Semiotics: Text and Staging in Modern TheatreTheatre 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. |
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Text and Staging in Modern Theatre Fernando de Toro, Mario Vald's Carole Hubbard. Fernando de Toro THEATRE EMIOTICS Text and Staging in Modern Theatre Fernando de Toro Theatre semiotics This One FTUT - WJD. Front Cover.
... SEMIOTICS I. Semiosis ... A ) The Notion of Semiotics B ) The Various Versions of Sign II . The Nature of the Theatre Sign A ) Signs of Signs . 88 63 63 63 64 68 69 B ) The Mobility of the Theatre Sign . 70 C ) Redundancy of the Theatre ...
... Semiotic Interpretation Emotive and Cognitive Reaction Evaluation . . . . 5 ) Memory and Recollection C ) Methodology 1 ) Selection of a Corpus 97 55 97 98 98 . 99 ..99 102 104 104 106 108 . 111 111 111 112 113 • 116 116 117 117 118 118 ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
CHAPTER | 33 |
The Dramatic Text | 43 |
Environmental Index | 83 |
CHAPTER | 97 |
A Mode of Production and Reception | 104 |
1 From the Social Context to the Signified | 111 |
xiii | 125 |
TOWARDS AN ACTANTIAL MODEL FOR THEATRE | 129 |
D Actants Actors Roles | 135 |
CHAPTER | 143 |
99 | 167 |
171 | |
Notes | 197 |