Theory of Performing Arts
n recent years, the post structuralist theories seem to have created a split in theatrological research. But, as André Helbo analyses in this book , a dialectic theory of the semiotic and the symbolic exchange bring to light a specific paradigm. From his wide experience as a semiotician and a theatrologist, the author has developed an analysis for the theory of spectacle. Focusing his study on a critical theory of the performing arts, and examining the fundamental controversies, he then offers new perspectives and new instruments of analysis: the social aspects, readability/visibility, coherence, the spectacle contract.
[Critical Theory, 5] 1987. viii, 153 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
-
Foreword | p. vii
-
I. Critical theory and performing arts
-
1. A general socio-semiotic model | p. 3
-
2. Towards a theatre semiotics | p. 25
-
3. Theatrology and literary studies | p. 37
-
II. Fundamental controversies
-
1. Research methodology | p. 55
-
2. Communication and cognition | p. 69
-
3. Pragmatics and discourse | p. 79
-
4. The code: irrelevant concept? | p. 87
-
III. New perspectives and new instruments
-
1. The visual paradigm and the scene | p. 97
-
2. Readable and visible dimensions: Opera and theatre | p. 109
-
3. Reception and relation | p. 117
-
4. Constructing coherence | p. 125
-
5. The spectacular paradigm | p. 137
-
Cited by
Cited by 5 other publications
CALKOWSKI, MARCIA S.
1991. a day at the Tibetan opera: actualized performance and spectacular discourse.
American Ethnologist 18:4 ► pp. 643 ff. 
Helbo, André
2016. Semiotics and performing arts: contemporary issues.
Social Semiotics 26:4 ► pp. 341 ff.
Saltz, David Z.
1995. When is the Play the Thing?—Analytic Aesthetics and Dramatic Theory.
Theatre Research International 20:3 ► pp. 266 ff.
Sindoni, Maria Grazia & Fabio Rossi
2016. “Un nodo avviluppato”. Rossini’s La Cenerentola as a prototype of multimodal resemiotisation.
Social Semiotics 26:4 ► pp. 385 ff.
Sindoni, Maria Grazia, Janina Wildfeuer & Kay L. O’Halloran
2016. The expanding galaxy of performing arts: extending theories and questioning practices.
Social Semiotics 26:4 ► pp. 325 ff.
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 20 april 2022. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.
Subjects & Metadata
Literature & Literary Studies
BIC Subject: DSB – Literary studies: general
BISAC Subject: LIT000000 – LITERARY CRITICISM / General