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Circus as Multimodal Discourse : Performance, Meaning, and Ritual.
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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2012.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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 w. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (225 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441102614 1441102612 9781441135759 1441135758 1283706148 9781283706148 |