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Circus as multimodal discourse : performance, meaning and ritual
- Title
- Circus as multimodal discourse : performance, meaning and ritual / Paul Bouissac.
- Author
- Bouissac, Paul
- Publication
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2012.
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- Description
- 216 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-213) and index.
- Contents
- Circus performances as rituals: participative ethnography -- The textility of circus acts: disentangling cognition and pleasure -- Magic in the ring -- Horses which speak, count, and laugh -- Steeds and symbols: multimodal metaphors -- The staging of actions: heroes, anti-heroes, and animal actors -- Circus animals as symbols, actors, and persons -- Dancing with tigers, lying with lions: translating biology into art -- Clowns at work: a socio-critical discourse -- The imaginary circus -- Ideology and politics in the circus ring -- The post-animal circus.
- Call Number
- MWF 13-5999
- ISBN
- 9781441125637 (hardback)
- 1441125639 (hardback)
- 9781441135759 (ebook)
- 1441135758 (ebook)
- 9781441102614 (pdf)
- 1441102612 (pdf)
- LCCN
- 2012034846
- 60001686172
- OCLC
- 809365721
- Author
- Bouissac, Paul.
- Title
- Circus as multimodal discourse : performance, meaning and ritual / Paul Bouissac.
- Imprint
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-213) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 60001686172
- Research Call Number
- MWF 13-5999