Future theatre research : origin, medium, performance-text, reception and acting /
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| Author / Creator: | Rozik, Eli, author. |
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| Imprint: | Brighton ; Chicago : Sussex Academic Press, [2016] |
| Description: | x, 313 pages ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10559327 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Theatre Medium
- 1. Basic Iconic Units
- Imagistic definition of 'iconicity'
- Basic iconic units
- Real objects on stage
- Part I. Iconic Figures of Speech
- 2. Stage Metaphor
- Verbal Metaphor
- Iconic metaphor
- Imagistic metaphor
- Stage symbol
- 3. Theatre Experience as Metaphor
- Stage metaphor
- Metaphoric fictional world
- Paradox of double reference
- Mechanism of textual metaphor
- Sophocles' Oedipus the King
- Garcia Lorca's Yerma
- 4. Stage Allegory
- Metaphoric stage allegory
- Interpreting stage allegory
- Mixing praxical and allegoric features
- Mixed metaphor in allegoric texts
- 5. Speech-Act Stage Metaphor
- Ionesco's Exit the King
- Speech-act metaphor on stage
- The predicate 'is a metaphor'
- Stylistic implications
- 6. Set and Costume Metaphor
- Metaphoric experience
- Set and costume metaphor
- Five basic models
- Set and costume mixed metaphor
- Part II. Stage Conventionality
- 7. Stage Conventions
- Notion of 'stage convention'
- Kinds of stage conventions
- Functions of stage conventions
- Ironic conventions
- Aesthetic conventions
- Theatre norms
- 8. The Chorus: Matrix of Stage Conventions
- Dramatic chorus
- Dithyrambic storytelling
- Bacchylides' Theseus Dive
- Nature of dithyramb
- 9. Lady Macbeth: In the Making of a Tragic Hero
- Confidant convention
- Lady Macbeth as confidant
- Confidential motifs
- Lady Macbeth's transfiguration
- Poetic implications
- 10. Functions of Language in Theatre
- Ingarden's approach
- Ingarden's functions of language
- Language mediation
- Speech interaction
- Speech act theory
- Iconic interaction
- Stage Conventions
- Part III. Fictional Thinking
- 11. Nature of Fictional Thinking
- Fictional world
- Structure and thematic specification
- Archetypal patterns of response
- Stratified structure of fictional world
- Structure of character
- Possible fallacies
- Sophocles' Oedipus the King
- 12. Sacred Narratives for Secular Spectators
- Basic features of 'myth'
- Functional approaches
- Mythical mappings
- Universality of mythical mappings
- Binding of Isaac
- Passion of the Christ
- 13. Theatre Ethics
- Hegel's 'ethical substance'
- Aristotle's 'philanthropon'
- Kant's 'categorical imperative'
- Dramatic irony
- Synthesis of Hegel and Aristotle
- Sophocles' Antigone
- 14. Theatre Aesthetics
- Aesthetic experience
- Kinds of aesthetic experience
- Functions of aesthetic experience
- Range of aesthetic experiences
- Objective/subjective dispute
- Objective and subjective principles
- On a possible aesthetics of theatre
- 15. Theatre Rhetoric
- Author-audience interaction
- Structural equivalence
- Rhetoric interaction
- Rhetoric pre-structuration
- Yerushalmi's Woyzeck 91
- Part TV. Reception
- 16. Implied Spectator
- Implied vs. real spectator
- Implied spectator and rhetoric structure
- Espert's The House of Bernarda Alba
- Thinking experimentation
- 17. Theatre as Thinking Laboratory
- Scientific mode of thinking
- Theatrical thinking - A comparison
- 18. Vicarious Theatre Experience
- Fictional thoughts
- Metaphoric predication
- Ontogenetic development
- Delegating imaginative play
- Vicarious experience
- 19. Enigmatic Appeal of Titus Andronicus
- Synopsis
- Absurdist structure
- Structure of vengeance
- Reversal of structure
- Oxymoronic structure
- Part V. Stage Acting
- 20. Acting Body
- States' 'binocular vision'
- Principle of 'acting'
- Deflection of reference
- Expanded notion of 'acting'
- Semiotic limitations
- A personal experience
- 21. Back to "Cinema is Filmed Theatre"
- Barthes' 'uncoded iconicity'
- Photographic indexality
- Photographic iconicity
- Cinema as the recording of a theatre-text
- Part VI. Learned Intuitions
- 22. Creation of Imagistic/Iconic Mediums
- Preverbal thinking
- Invention of language and its innovations
- Adoption of preverbal principles by language
- Two-fold cultural role of language:
- Suppression of imagistic thinking
- Creation of iconic mediums
- Advent of the theatre medium
- List of Cited Theoretical Works
- List of Cited Theatre-Texts
- List of Cited Art Works (other than theatre)
- Index
