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 example...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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. It concludes with a reflection on the potentially subversive power of this discourse and its contemporary use by activists. Throughout, it endeavours to develop an analytical approach that is mindful of the epistemological traps of both positivism and postmodernist license. It brings semiotics and ethnography to bear on the realm of the circus |
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Performance, Meaning, and Ritual
Paul Bouissac
BLOOMSBURY
LONDON • N1-: V DL l Hl • NI W YORK • SYDNEY
Contents
Introduction: Playing with Fire 1
1 Circus Performances as Rituals: Participative Ethnography 10
2 The Textility of Circus Acts: Disentangling Cognition and Pleasure 28
3 Magic in the Ring 48
4 Horses which Speak, Count, and Laugh 58
5 Steeds and Symbols: Multimodal Metaphors 74
6 The Staging of Actions: Heroes, Antiheroes, and Animal Actors 92
7 Circus Animals as Symbols, Actors, and Persons 104
8 Dancing with Tigers, Lying with Lions: Translating Biology into Art 115
9 Clowns at Work: A Sociocritical Discourse 144
10 The Imaginary Circus 159
11 Ideology and Politics in the Circus Ring 170
12 The Postanimal Circus 188
Conclusion: Pleasures of the Circus: Attraction, Emotion, and Addiction 199
Bibliography 209
Index 215
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