Semiotics and Pragmatics of Stage Improvisation - Brossura

Pietropaolo, Domenico

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ISBN 10: 1474225799 ISBN 13: 9781474225793

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

Riassunto

Analysis of improvisation as a compositional practice in the Commedia dell'Arte and related traditions from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Domenic Pietropaolo takes textual material from the stage traditions of Italy, France, Germany and England, and covers comedic drama, dance, pantomime and dramatic theory, and more. He shines a light onto 'the signs of improvised communication'.

The book is comprehensive in its analysis of improvised dramatic art across theatrical genres, and is multimodal in looking at the spoken word, gestural and non-verbal signs. The book focusses on dramatic text as well as:

- The semiotics of stage discourse, including semantic, syntactic and pragmatic aspects of sign production
- The physical and material conditions of sign-production including biomechanical limitations of masks and costumes.

Semiotics and Pragmatics of Stage Improvisation is the product of an entire career spent researching the semiotics of the stage and it is essential reading for semioticians and students of performance arts.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Domenico Pietropaolo is Professor of Italian Studies and Drama at the University of Toronto, Canada, where he is also Principal of St. Michael's College and Senior Fellow of Massey College.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1474225799
• ISBN 13: 9781474225793
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 162