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Circus as multimodal discourse : performance, meaning and ritual / Paul Bouissac.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic / Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014Description: 216 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.3014 BOU 22
Contents:
Introduction, 'Playing with Fire'1. Circus performances as rituals: participative ethnography2. The 'textility' of circus acts: disentangling cognition and pleasure3. Magic in the ring4. Horses which speak, count, and laugh5. Steeds and symbols: multimodal metaphors6. The staging of actions: heroes, anti-heroes, and animal actors7.Circus animals as symbols, actors, and persons8. Dancing with tigers, lying with lions: translating biology into art 9. Clowns at work: a socio-critical discourse 10. The imaginary circus11. Ideology and Politics in the Circus Ring12. The post-animal circusConclusionReferencesIndex.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction, 'Playing with Fire'1. Circus performances as rituals: participative ethnography2. The 'textility' of circus acts: disentangling cognition and pleasure3. Magic in the ring4. Horses which speak, count, and laugh5. Steeds and symbols: multimodal metaphors6. The staging of actions: heroes, anti-heroes, and animal actors7.Circus animals as symbols, actors, and persons8. Dancing with tigers, lying with lions: translating biology into art 9. Clowns at work: a socio-critical discourse 10. The imaginary circus11. Ideology and Politics in the Circus Ring12. The post-animal circusConclusionReferencesIndex.

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