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 examples to...
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Main Author: | Bouissac, Paul |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2012.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |
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