Semiotics at the Circus / / Paul Bouissac.
Semiotics is long on theoretical, often obscure discourses, but short on applications that demonstrate with clarity the applicability of its methods. This book confronts a challenging object, the circus, and endeavors to describe its performances in ways that explain how circus acts produce meaning...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (196 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. A semiotician at the circus
- Chapter 1. The production of circus space
- Chapter 2. The time of the circus. Cognitive and emotional dimensions of acrobatics and other circus acts
- Chapter 3. In what sense is a circus animal performing?
- Chapter 4. Horses’ feathers: from tacit knowledge to circus metaphors
- Chapter 5. Circus and cycles
- Chapter 6. The pyramid and the wheel: the visual discourse of circus acrobatics
- Chapter 7. The logic of clown faces
- Chapter 8. Incident, accident, failure: life and death at the circus
- Chapter 9. There’s no business like show business: the marketing of performance
- Chapter 10. The researcher as spectator: the pragmatics of circus performances
- Conclusion. Circus in perspective
- Backmatter