Open AccessQuintiliano y la semiótica del teatro
Author(s) -
Leonor Pérez Gómez
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
emérita/emerita
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1988-8384
pISSN - 0013-6662
DOI - 10.3989/emerita.1990.v58.i1.553
Subject(s) - analogy , rhetorical question , structuralism (philosophy of science) , semiotics , czech , philosophy , humanities , literature , art , linguistics , epistemology
Recent research on the Semiotics of theatre derives its theoretical and methodological assumptions from Czech structuralism and from the studies of the Polish semiotician T. Kowzan. Although there is no evidence of Ancient theories on the theatrical performance, the analysis of Quintilian’s rhetorical texts leads, through analogy with rhetorical practice, to the conclusion that many of the concepts so far used had already been formulated by theoreticians in ancient times