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Semiotics of the Drama and the Style of Eugene O'Neill.
A semiotic analysis is made of the six major plays by Eugene O'Neill and an attempt is made to yield a systematic analysis towards humanistic interpretations of texts. Theoretical interpretations are enriched with discussions of the plays. Technical matters such as the segmentation of the text...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1989.
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| Colección: | Foundations of semiotics ;
v. 19. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- SEMIOTICS OF THE DRAMA AND THE STYLE OF EUGENE O'NEILL; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; List of Figures; List of appendices; 1. Introduction: the purpose and design of this study; 2. Stylistics in relation to linguistics and semiotics; 3. The semiotics of the drama; 4. Approaching the drama of O'Neill through semiotic stylistics; 5. Establishing a controlled semiotics for the dramatic microcorpus; 6. A representative segment analysis: Anna Christie I.vi; 7. Concluding discussion of Desire Under the Elms.
- 8. Concluding discussion of Long Day's Journey into Night9. Conclusion: summary of findings at the level of the microcorpus; APPENDICES; Appendix A The specification of Aristotelian divisions; Appendix B The specification of dramatis personae configuration; Appendix C The specification of awareness level; Appendix D The specification of oppositional motifs; Appendix E The segmentation into subscenes; Appendix F The selection of subscene segments for matrix analysis; Appendix G The format and notation of the work sheet matrix.