At The Circus

Author : Paul Bouissac
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110218291
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semiotics at the Circus written by Paul Bouissac and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semiotics is long on theoretical, often obscure discourses, but short on applications that demonstrate with clarity the applicability of its methods. This book confronts a challenging object, the circus, and endeavors to describe its performances in ways that explain how circus acts produce meaning and cause a deep emotional involvement for their audiences. The approach is not top-down, such as would be a method that would dogmatically apply a particular theory to fully explain the phenomena in terms of this theory alone. Epistemologically, this book is an example of the bottom-up strategy, which consists of considering first the objects and heuristically calling upon methodological resources in a broad theoretical array to come to grips with the problems that are encountered. Any circus act is a complex event that has cognitive and emotional dimensions. It is also a part of a history and an institution, and cannot be abstracted from its cultural and sociological contexts. Thus the range of relevant theoretical and methodological approaches must include structural semiotics, biosemiotics, pragmatics, socio-semiotics, cultural anthropology, the cognitive sciences, the psychology and sociology of emotions, to name only the most important. But the ultimate focus of this book is to enable the readers to better understand the meaning of circus performances and to appreciate the skills and creativity of this traditional popular art, which constantly renews itself from generation to generation.

Author : Frances Trego Montgomery
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Billy Whiskers at the Circus written by Frances Trego Montgomery and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this children's story, Billy Whiskers, the big white bearded Billy Goat who lives at Clover leaf Farm, has an adventure at the circus when it comes to town. There, he encounters many strange animals and people that he has never seen before. He is also the subject of a kidnapping attempt, but manages to get away with the help of the monkeys who have become his friends. Afterwards he said it was the best time of his life and loved to talk about it. The author, Frances Trego Montgomery said that she got the ideas for her books by inviting groups of children to her house "between dinner and their bedtime."

Author : Angela Carter
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nights at the Circus written by Angela Carter and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1984 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in 1899. Through the circus flier F̀evvers', the author mocks cliches of Gothic romance, melodrama, farce, fairytale, and utopian vision.

Author : Daniel Nunn
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1410991474
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eddie and Ellie's Opposites at the Circus written by Daniel Nunn and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn all about opposites with illustratedÊelephant duo, Eddie and Ellie. These curious elephants explore the world around them together, but somehow always end up liking opposite things!Ê Illustrated with vibrant photographs of different circus acts combined with playful illustrations of Eddie and Ellie, this book is sure to be a popular choice!

Author : Teresa Cutler-Broyles
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476671184
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Top on the Big Screen written by Teresa Cutler-Broyles and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Circuses and film are a natural pairing, and the new essays making up this volume begin the exploration of how these two forms of entertainment have often worked together to create a spectacle of onscreen alchemy. The films discussed herein are an eclectic group, ranging from early silent comedies to animated, 21st century examples, in which circuses serve as liminal or carnivalesque spaces wherein characters--and by extension audience members--can confront issues as far-reaching as labor relations, sensuality, identity, ethics, and more. The circus as discussed in these essays encompasses the big top, the midway, the sideshow and the freak show; it becomes backdrop, character, catalyst and setting; and it is welcoming, malicious or terrifying. Circus performers are family, friends, foe or all of the above. And film is the medium that brings it all together. This volume starts the conversation about how circuses and film can combine to form productive, exciting spaces where almost anything can happen.

Author : Brooke Stevens
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780156002066
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Circus of the Earth and the Air written by Brooke Stevens and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman volunteers for a circus magic trick...and vanishes. When her husband sets out to discover what has happened, he is tortured, tempted, and analyzed and eventually sheds his identity and gains a new one-as a tightrope walker whose strength is his vulnerability. Photographs.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 984 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1156 pages
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Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.

Author : Frederick Converse Beach
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Total Pages : 902 pages
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