Lektüren des Zeitgenössischen Zirkus - (Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / Spectrum Literature) by Franziska Trapp (Paperback)

About the Book

Today's spectrum of research in literary studies is characterized by a sense of openness to the methods of comparative literature and cultural studies, along with a wide range of interdisciplinary crossover. The spectrum Literaturwissenschaft series is intended to be a forum for this pluralistic new model of literary studies. It presents papers that are informed by methodologically innovative, frequently comparative approaches, and whose findings are of importance well beyond the narrow boundaries of national philological horizons.

Book Synopsis

From the Back Cover

Im Jahr 1996 prophezeit die Pariser Zeitung Libération eine dritte Ära des Zirkus: den Zeitgenössischen Zirkus. Die Prognose wird Realität; nicht nur in Frankreich, sondern auch international erobert das Genre die Kunst- und Kulturszene und gerät zunehmend in den Fokus der Forschung.

Dieser Band entwickelt erstmals in Rückgriff auf die Lektüretheorien der Literatur-, Theater- und Tanzwissenschaft eine Methodik zur Analyse von zeitgenössischen Zirkusdarbietungen. Dabei wird das Genre umfangreich dokumentiert und interpretiert. Gleichzeitig werden kultursemiotische Theorien und Methoden mit Blick auf die Charakteristika des Zirkus modifiziert und weiterentwickelt.

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A welcome addition to the rich paradigm of circus research to which Dr. Franziska Trapp had already significantly contributed through organizing ground-breaking conferences on Zirkuswissenschaft in which her scholarly leadership achieved a powerful synergy, bringing together academic researchers and circus artists. In this innovative book, based on hand-on research and precise analyses, she explores, with theoretical and methodological virtuosity, the artistic creativity of contemporary acrobatic performances emancipated from the historical constraints of the traditional circus. It is a first and highly successful attempt to engage the challenging complexity of the contemporary acrobatic circus and to elaborate a persuasive semiotics and poetics of this new, emergent genre.

Prof. Dr. Paul Bouissac

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