Metonymy and drama : essays on language and dramatic strategy /
Based on various models of metonymy, this book distinguishes metonymic drama structure from the metaphoric, symbolic, and allegorical. It applies Kristeva's theory of the "semiotic" to dramatic texts and Barker's observations on the private body to their potential theatrical repr...
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Lewisburg : Lodon ; Cranbury, NJ :
Bucknell University Press ; Associated University Presses,
c1996.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Figures of Language as Dramatic Strategy
- 2. The Body Is All: Semiotics of the Feminine in The Duchess of Malfi
- 3. "Voyage Infortune": Tokens of Desire in Phedre
- 4. Consciousness and Structure in Danton's Death
- 5. Metonymic Impasse in Troilus and Cressida.