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Generating Theatre Meaning
Eli Rozik
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Description for Generating Theatre Meaning
Paperback. Offers a theory and methodology of performance analysis as an alternative to traditional play-analysis. This title deals with the poetic structure of fictional worlds described by the theatre medium and metaphoric and rhetoric structures that operate on the level of relationship between the description of such a world and the world of a spectator. Num Pages: 292 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 444.
This book offers a theory and methodology of performance analysis as an alternative to traditional play-analysis. The underlying theme is that theatre performance is a descriptive text generated by the theatre medium and that the process of generating meaning takes place in the actual encounter between a theatre performance and the spectator. Many new understandings result, including how the theatre medium is iconic in the new sense of operating images of real or mental models, and how this impacts on the verbal text and stage metaphor; how poetic principles structure fictional worlds and bestow unity and wholeness on performance-texts; how ... Read more
This book offers a theory and methodology of performance analysis as an alternative to traditional play-analysis. The underlying theme is that theatre performance is a descriptive text generated by the theatre medium and that the process of generating meaning takes place in the actual encounter between a theatre performance and the spectator. Many new understandings result, including how the theatre medium is iconic in the new sense of operating images of real or mental models, and how this impacts on the verbal text and stage metaphor; how poetic principles structure fictional worlds and bestow unity and wholeness on performance-texts; how ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
292
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
449g
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845193300
SKU
V9781845193300
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99-50
About Eli Rozik
Eli Rozik is Ph.D. and professor emeritus of theatre studies. He was twice head of the Department of Theatre Studies and Dean of the Faculty of the Arts at Tel Aviv University. He specializes in theatre theory, particularly in non-verbal communication in performance analysis; and has published numerous articles in international leading journals in Europe and the US. His books ... Read more
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