29.3246, Books: The Meaning of the Circus: Bouissac

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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 16:28:47
From: Lianna Iwanikiw [lianna.iwanikiw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: The Meaning of the Circus: Bouissac

 


Title: The Meaning of the Circus 
Subtitle: The Communicative Experience of Cult, Art and Awe 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
	   http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
	

Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/the-meaning-of-the-circus-9781350044135/ 


Author: Paul Bouissac

Electronic: ISBN:  9781350044142 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 91.80 Comment: ePUB
Electronic: ISBN:  9781350044159 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 91.80 Comment: ePDF
Hardback: ISBN:  9781350044135 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 85.00


Abstract:

This book documents and discusses the meaning(s) of the creative process at
play in the crafting and staging of circus acts. It highlights the experience
of circus artists as their skills develop and mature into public performances
that create aesthetic and emotional values in the modern economy of live
spectacles. It scrutinizes the meaning that circus acts produce for the
spectators and for the artists themselves who live this process from the
inside. This is a book for those studying semiotics and wanting to see it
applied to a real life milieu in accessible and passionate prose.

"The Meaning of the Circus" is grounded on the personal experience of
Professor Paul Bouissac as both a circus entrepreneur and a researcher with
decades of primary material on the significance of past and contemporary
circus acts. It is based on substantial accounts provided by many men and
women who have agreed to share the challenges, joys, and anxieties of their
life as artists. Personal and rigorous, it contributes to the hermeneutics of
the circus arts by adding existential depth to the production and reception of
their performances.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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