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Circus as Multimodal Discourse

Name: Circus as Multimodal Discourse
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
SKU: 01216082
Price: 220.86 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Paul Bouissac
ISBN: 9781441125637

Paul Bouissac

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 01216082

Publishers Bloomsbury Publishing, October 2012

Now available in paperback, this volume presents a theory of the circus as a secular ritual and intr... Full description

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Now available in paperback, 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. Bouissac is one of the world's leading authorities on circus ethnography and semiotics and this work is grounded on research conducted over a 50 year span in Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas. 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.