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Semiotics and pragmatics of stage improvisation / Domenico Pietropaolo.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Bloomsbury advances in semioticsPublisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781474225816
  • 1474225810
  • 9781474225830
  • 1474225837
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Semiotics and pragmatics of stage improvisation.DDC classification:
  • 792.01 23
LOC classification:
  • PN2041.S45
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Memory and imagination in impromptu performance -- 2. The pragmatics of derision in Commedia dell'Arte -- 3. Semiotics of the improvised performance text -- 4. Quidquid in Buccam Venit: the syntax of stage improvisation -- 5. The biomechanical base of improvisation -- 6. The dramaturgy of improvisation -- 7. The pragmatics of texuality.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Memory and imagination in impromptu performance -- 2. The pragmatics of derision in Commedia dell'Arte -- 3. Semiotics of the improvised performance text -- 4. Quidquid in Buccam Venit: the syntax of stage improvisation -- 5. The biomechanical base of improvisation -- 6. The dramaturgy of improvisation -- 7. The pragmatics of texuality.

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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.

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