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New Messengers.
The publication introduces the "new messenger" as a specific type of dramatic character, a follower of the conventional „messenger" whose presence in traditional drama serves several purposes, which the new messenger also fulfils. What makes it different is the fact that it is not an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Brno :
Masarykova univerzita,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Structure of the Book
- 2 Why Mainstream
- 3 The Old Messenger
- 3.1 The Messenger as a Convention
- 4 The Poetic Tradition
- 4.1 Historical Development
- 4.2 Aristotelian Poetics
- 5 The Prague School Theory of Theatre and Drama
- 5.1 The Prague School Heritage
- 5.2 The Aesthetic Function
- 5.3 The Referential Function
- 6 Morphology and the Theory of Actants
- 6.1 The Propp Inspiration
- 6.2 The Messenger as Character-Function
- 7 Brecht's Heritage
- 8 Reportage
- 9 Introducing New Messengers
- 10 New Messengers on the Stage
- 10.1 A Remark Concerning the Case Studies
- 11 Pushing the Action Forward
- 11.1 The Voice from the Gadget
- 12 Interpreting for Others
- 12.1 The Eye-Witness Testifies
- 12.2 New Messengers as Political Agents
- 13 Informing (about) the Actual World
- 13.1 New Messengers as Teaching Agents
- 14 The New Messenger's Applications: a Conclusion
- 15 Epilogue
- Works Cited
- Index.