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100	1		_aElam, Keir.
245	1	4	_aThe semiotics of theatre and drama / _cKeir Elam.
250			_a2nd ed.
260			_aLondon ; _aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c2002.
300			_axii, 260 p. ; _c21 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [231]-249) and index.
505			_a 1. Preliminaries: Semiotics and Poetics: The Semiotics Enterprise; How Many Semiotics?; The material. 2. Foundations: Signs in the Theatre: Prague structuralism and the theatrical sign; Typologies of the sign. 3. Theatrical Communication: Codes, Systems and the Performance Text: Elements of theatrical communication; Theatrical Systems and Codes; Theatrical competence: frame, convention and the role of the audience. 4. Dramatic Logic: The construction of the dramatic world; Dramatic action and time; Actant, dramatis persona and the dramatic model. 5. Dramatic Discourse: Dramatic Communication; Context and deixis; Universe of discourse and co-text; Speech acts; The said and the unsaid: implicatures and figures; Textuality; Towards a dramatological analysis. 6. Concluding Comments: Theatre, Drama, Semiotics: Dramatic Text/performance text; A united enterprise? Suggestions for further reading
650		0	_aDrama.
650		0	_aTheater _xSemiotics.
650		0	_aSemiotics and literature.
650		0	_aSemiotics.
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