Theatre Sciences: A Plea for a Multidisciplinary Approach to Theatre Studies

ISBN-13: 9781845197254 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 344 str.

Eli Rozik

Opis

Traditional theater semiotics promote a scientific approach to theater studies, albeit viewing semiotics as the unique discipline of research. This volume suggests instead a multidisciplinary approach, including the theoretical disciplines of narratology, mythology, pragmatics, ethics, theater irony, theory of genres, aesthetics, semiotics, theory of nonverbal figures of speech, rhetoric, psychoanalysis, reception theory, history, and sociology--with semiotics being only one among many equals. These disciplines are presented from the perspective of their possible contributions to a sound methodology of theater-texts analysis. The author also contests the age-old view that a theater-text reflects a simple narrative structure, and he proposes instead a complexity that consists of seven layers: personified, mythical, praxical, naive, ironic, modal, and aesthetic, with each one of them restructuring the previous layer.