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In:Theory of Performing Arts
André Helbo
[Critical Theory 5] 1987
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 1 January 1987

https://doi.org/10.1075/ct.5.toc

Table of contents

Forewordvii

I. Critical theory and performing arts1

1. A general socio-semiotic model3

2. Towards a theatre semiotics25

3. Theatrology and literary studies37

II. Fundamental controversies53

1. Research methodology55

2. Communication and cognition69

3. Pragmatics and discourse79

4. The code: irrelevant concept?87

III. New perspectives and new instruments95

1. The visual paradigm and the scene97

2. Readable and visible dimensions: Opera and theatre109

3. Reception and relation117

4. Constructing coherence125

5. The spectacular paradigm137

References147