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  title info:
    title: Semiotics and pragmatics of stage improvisation
  name:
    name part: Pietropaolo, Domenico
    name part: 1949-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 154 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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 focuses on dramatic text as well as the semiotics of stage discourse, including semantic, syntactic and pragmatic aspects of sign production and 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.
  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.
  note: Domenico Pietropaolo.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [137]-143) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Theater
    topic: Semiotics
  subject:
    topic: Improvisation (Acting)
  classification: PN2041.S45 P54 2016
  classification: 792.01
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Bloomsbury advances in semiotics
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  identifier: 9781474225823
  identifier: 2016012265
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160526
    record change date: 20161102155404.0
    record identifier: in00003737766