Author: Issacharoff, Michael
Title: Discourse as Performance
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1989). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, vii, 161 pp. Minor rubbing. Some page-edge soil. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: From Script to Performance: Introduction to Dramatic Discourse; Speech Acts Onstage; Reading Stage Directions; Theatrical Intertextuality; Space & Discourse: Utterance Constrained: Space in Drama; The Visible & the Invisible: 'Huis clos'; Sequestration & Reference: *Les Séquestrés d' Altona'; The Politics of Space: 'La Cité sans sommeil'; Comic Discourse: Utterance Liberated: Comic Reference; When Referent is King: 'Un chapeau de paille d'Italie'; The Signifier Triumphant: 'Ubu roi'; The Assassination of the Sign: 'Jacques ou la soumission'; The Discourse of the Avant-Garde Spectacle.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, French Literature, Drama, Discourse, Linguistic Theory, Semiotic, Semiotics, Speech Acts, Language