portada circus as multimodal discourse: performance, meaning, and ritual (en Inglés)

circus as multimodal discourse: performance, meaning, and ritual (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Paul Bouissac

Editorial

Bloomsbury Academic

Año

2012

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

288

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.6x15.2x1.8 cm

Peso

0.52 kg.

ISBN

1441125639

ISBN13

9781441125637

Categorías

Circo y habilidades circenses
Semántica, análisis del discurso, etc.

circus as multimodal discourse: performance, meaning, and ritual (en Inglés)

Paul Bouissac (Autor) · Bloomsbury Academic · Tapa Dura

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This volume presents a theory of the circus as a secular ritual and introduces a method to analyze its performances as multimodal discourse. The book's fifteen chapters cover the range of circus specialties (magic, domestic and wild animal training, acrobatics, and clowning) and provide examples to show how cultural meaning is produced, extended and amplified by circus performances. Bouissac is one of the world's leading authorities on circus ethnography and semiotics and this work is grounded on research conducted over a 50 year span in Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas. It concludes with a reflection on the potentially subversive power of this discourse and its contemporary use by activists. Throughout, it endeavours to develop an analytical approach that is mindful of the epistemological traps of both positivism and postmodernist license. It brings semiotics and ethnography to bear on the realm of the circus.