Circus as Multimodal Discourse —— Performance, Meaning, and Ritual

----- 马戏团的多模态话语：性能，意义和仪式

ISBN: 9781472569479 出版年：2012 页码：225 Paul Bouissac Bloomsbury Publishing

Introduction, 'Playing with Fire' 1. Circus performances as rituals: participative ethnography 2. The 'textility' of circus acts: disentangling cognition and pleasure 3. Magic in the ring 4. Horses which speak, count, and laugh 5. Steeds and symbols: multimodal metaphors 6. The staging of actions: heroes, anti-heroes, and animal actors 7. Circus animals as symbols, actors, and persons 8. Dancing with tigers, lying with lions: translating biology into art 9. Clowns at work: a socio-critical discourse 10. The imaginary circus 11. Ideology and Politics in the Circus Ring 12. The post-animal circus Conclusion References Index