Semiotics and pragmatics of stage improvisation /
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...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2016.
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| Series: | Bloomsbury advances in semiotics.
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Table of 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.