Generating theatre meaning : a theory and methodology of performance analysis /
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| Author / Creator: | Rozik, Eli. |
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| Imprint: | Brighton [England] ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, 2008. |
| Description: | x, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6833163 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction: State of the Art and Perspectives
- Main schools and trends
- The formalist movement
- The Prague Linguistic Circle
- Roman Ingarden
- The semiotic school
- Post-semiotic criticism
- The IFTR Performance Analysis Working Group
- Main theoretical topics
- Textual nature of the theatre performance
- Descriptive nature of the performance-text
- Imagistic nature of the theatre medium
- Basic convention of the theatre medium
- Univocal nature of theatre units
- Segmentation of the performance-text
- The principle of acting: deflection of reference
- Theatrical nature of the play-script
- Poetic structure of the fictional world
- Metaphoric nature of the fictional experience
- Rhetoric structure of the theatre experience
- Role of the implied director
- Role of the implied spectator
- A phenomenology of theatre
- Structure of the book
- Part I. Semiotic Substratum
- 1. The Imagistic Nature of Iconicity
- Imagistic thinking: from Nietzsche to neuroscience
- Iconicity: image imprinting and language mediation
- The basic convention of theatre
- Explanatory power of the imagistic approach
- Typical iconic units
- Real objects on stage
- Stage metaphor
- Stage convention
- 2. Segmentation of Performance-texts
- Segmentation of real interaction
- Ingarden's view of fictional verbal interaction
- The pragmatic approach of Serpieri et al.
- Segmentation of iconic interaction
- Segmentation of stage objects
- Segmentation of iconic interaction in Habimah's The Seagull
- 3. Stage Metaphor and Symbol
- A theory of verbal metaphor
- Stage metaphor
- Speech act stage metaphor
- Stylistic implications of mixed stage metaphor
- Stage allegory
- Personification
- Substitution
- Mediation by abstraction
- Mixed praxical and allegoric discourse
- Stage symbol
- 4. Stage Conventions
- Reading principles
- Kinds of stage conventions
- Medium conventions
- Imagistic conventions
- Functions of stage conventions
- Semiotic functions
- Poetic functions
- Norms and styles
- 5. Acting: The Quintessence of Theatre
- Deflection of reference
- Expanded notions of 'actor', 'text' and 'character'
- Existential gaps between text and two worlds
- The fundamental gap between real action and enacting action
- Experiencing the performers' bodies
- 6. The Theatrical Nature of the Play-script
- Two kinds of theatre texts
- The literary fallacy
- Play-script analysis
- Intertextual relations between performance-text and play-script
- Part II. Additional Strata and Disciplines
- 7. The Poetic Structure of the Fictional World
- The twofold structure of the performance-text
- Archetypal patterns of response
- The stratified structure of the fictional world
- Mythical layer
- Praxical layer
- Naive layer
- Ironic layer
- Aesthetic layer
- Structure of the character
- Possible fallacies
- Sophocles' Oedipus the King
- 8. The Metaphoric Nature of the Fictional Experience
- The metaphoric principle
- The expressive nature of fictional worlds
- The principle of personification
- The apparent double reference of the performance-text
- The mechanism of textual metaphor
- Poetic implications
- Metaphor in dramatic practice
- Sophocles' Oedipus the King (continued)
- Yerushalmi's Jephthah's Daughter
- 9. The Rhetoric Structure of the Theatre Experience
- The pragmatic nature of speech interaction
- The pragmatic nature of stage/audience interaction
- Descriptive nature of the performance-text
- Performative nature of the performance-text
- Equivalence agent/director and object/spectator
- Notion of 'macro-speech act'
- Rhetoric nature of the stage/audience interaction
- Yerushalmi's Jephthah's Daughter (continued)
- 10. The Implied Director
- Hermeneutic vs. creative interpretation
- The mechanism of creative interpretation
- Fidelity, creativity, and legitimacy
- Creative interpretation and intertextuality
- Productions of Beckett's Waiting for Godot
- The play-script
- Creative interpretations of Waiting for Godot
- 11. The Implied Spectator
- Real vs. implied spectator
- Roles of the implied spectator
- Yerushalmi's Woyzeck 91
- Framing a performance-text
- Reading a performance-text
- Interpreting a performance-text
- Experiencing a performance-text
- Dialogue between implied director and implied spectator
- 12. A Phenomenology Theatre
- State's phenomenological approach
- Alternative phenomenological approaches
- Functions of actors' bodies on stage
- Textuality
- Metatheatricality
- Personification
- Characterization
- Aesthetic effect
- Life Class: a personal experience
- Theatre vs. performance art
- Part III. Examples of Performance Analysis
- 13. A Transient Shadow: A Silent Description of a Speaking Fictional World
- Reading A Transient Shadow
- Interpreting A Transient Shadow
- Principles of non-verbal description
- Inherently non-verbal acts
- Symbolic non-verbal acts
- Metonymic non-verbal acts
- Metaphoric non-verbal acts
- Metaphoric hand gestures
- Allegoric characters
- Projected titles
- 14. Suz/o/Suz by La Fura dels Baus: Theatre at the Borderline
- The notion of 'performance'
- The notion of 'actual'
- Performing an action vs. enacting an action
- Suz/o/Suz by La Fura dels Baus
- 15. Habimah's The Trojan Women: A Ready-made Metaphor of Unjustified War
- Euripides' The Trojan Women and its Homeric sources
- Sartre's adaptation: Les Troyennes
- Habimah's production of Les Troyennes
- 16. Robert Wilson's H.G: Non-theatrical Space as Stage Metaphor
- Reading H.G.
- On the legitimacy of interpretation
- An attempt at interpretation
- The warren - a found-space metaphor
- 17. Yerushalmi's Woyzeck 91: Intention in Creative Interpretation
- Buchner's Woyzeck
- Yerushalmi's Woyzeck 91
- 18. Methodological Conclusions
- Aims of performance analysis
- Means of performance analysis
- Theoretical focus
- Personal experience
- Use of video recording
- Abridged account
- Intuition of structure and meaning
- Independent performance analysis
- The disciplines of performance analysis
- Excludes disciplines
- List of Cited Works
- Index
