Future Theatre Research : Origin, Medium, Performance-Text, Reception and Acting.

Cover -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Theatre Medium -- 1 Basic Iconic Units -- Imagistic definition of 'iconicity' -- Basic iconic units -- Real objects on stage -- Part I Iconic Figures of Speech -- 2 Stage Metaphor -- Verbal Metaphor -- Iconic metaphor -- Imagistic metaphor -- Stage symbol -- 3 Theatre Experience as Metaphor -- Stage metaphor -- Metaphoric fictional world -- Paradox of double reference -- Mechanism of textual metaphor -- Sophocles' Oedipus the King -- García Lorca's Yerma -- 4 Stage Allegory -- Metaphoric stage allegory -- Interpreting stage allegory -- Mixing praxical and allegoric features -- Mixed metaphor in allegoric texts -- 5 Speech-Act Stage Metaphor -- Ionesco's Exit the King -- Speech-act metaphor on stage -- The predicate 'is a metaphor' -- Stylistic implications -- 6 Set and Costume Metaphor -- Metaphoric experience -- Set and costume metaphor -- Five basic models -- Set and costume mixed metaphor -- Part II Stage Conventionality -- 7 Stage Conventions -- Notion of 'stage convention' -- Kinds of stage conventions -- Functions of stage conventions -- Ironic conventions -- Aesthetic conventions -- Theatre norms -- 8 The Chorus: Matrix of Stage Conventions -- Dramatic chorus -- Dithyrambic storytelling -- Bacchylides' Theseus Dive -- Nature of dithyramb -- 9 Lady Macbeth: In the Making of a Tragic Hero -- Confidant convention -- Lady Macbeth as confidant -- Confidential motifs -- Lady Macbeth's transfiguration -- Poetic implications -- 10 Functions of Language in Theatre -- Ingarden's approach -- Ingarden's functions of language -- Language mediation -- Speech interaction -- Speech act theory -- Iconic interaction -- Stage Conventions -- Part III Fictional Thinking -- 11 Nature of Fictional Thinking -- Fictional world.

Structure and thematic specification -- Archetypal patterns of response -- Stratified structure of fictional world -- Structure of character -- Possible fallacies -- Sophocles' Oedipus the King -- 12 Sacred Narratives for Secular Spectators -- Basic features of 'myth' -- Functional approaches -- Mythical mappings -- Universality of mythical mappings -- Binding of Isaac -- Passion of the Christ -- 13 Theatre Ethics -- Hegel's 'ethical substance' -- Aristotle's 'philanthropon' -- Kant's 'categorical imperative' -- Dramatic irony -- Synthesis of Hegel and Aristotle -- Sophocles' Antigone -- 14 Theatre Aesthetics -- Aesthetic experience -- Kinds of aesthetic experience -- Functions of aesthetic experience -- Range of aesthetic experiences -- Objective/subjective dispute -- Objective and subjective principles -- On a possible aesthetics of theatre -- 15 Theatre Rhetoric -- Author-audience interaction -- Structural equivalence -- Rhetoric interaction -- Rhetoric pre-structuration -- Yerushalmi's Woyzeck 91 -- Part IV Reception -- 16 Implied Spectator -- Implied vs. real spectator -- Implied spectator and rhetoric structure -- Espert's The House of Bernarda Alba -- Thinking experimentation -- 17 Theatre as Thinking Laboratory -- Scientific mode of thinking -- Theatrical thinking - A comparison -- 18 Vicarious Theatre Experience -- Fictional thoughts -- Metaphoric predication -- Ontogenetic development -- Delegating imaginative play -- Vicarious experience -- 19 Enigmatic Appeal of Titus Andronicus -- Synopsis -- Absurdist structure -- Structure of vengeance -- Reversal of structure -- Oxymoronic structure -- Part V Stage Acting -- 20 Acting Body -- States' 'binocular vision' -- Principle of 'acting' -- Deflection of reference -- Expanded notion of 'acting' -- Semiotic limitations -- A personal experience -- 21 Back to "Cinema is Filmed Theatre".

Barthes' 'uncoded iconicity' -- Photographic indexality -- Photographic iconicity -- Cinema as the recording of a theatre-text -- Part VI Learned Intuitions -- 22 Creation of Imagistic/Iconic Mediums -- Preverbal thinking -- Invention of language and its innovations -- Adoption of preverbal principles by language -- Two-fold cultural role of language: -- Suppression of imagistic thinking -- Creation of iconic mediums -- Advent of the theatre medium -- List of Cited Theoretical Works -- List of Cited Theatre-Texts -- List of Cited Art Works (other than theatre) -- Index.

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