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«¿Que es esto que miro?»: Converging Sign Systems in El medico de su honra

«¿Que es esto que miro?»: Converging Sign Systems in El medico de su honra « ¿QUE ES ESTO QUE MIRO? »: CONVERGING SIGN SYSTEMS WELMEDICO DESUHONRA William R. Blue, University of Kansas El médico de su honra has been a topic for discussion by many critics using several different approaches -- moral, psychological, historical, thematic, New Critical. This paper proposes another way of contemplating the consummate artistry of Calderón through an examination of the stage- craft itself as it is disclosed by the visual markers of the play. A study of those signs allows us to observe how the playwright is able to reach the tion. Before we consider aspects of the nonverbal sign system, a few general concepts from the theory of semiotics, in the form of a brief introduction, are provided. (1) audience through means that are expressly those of a dramatic representa- «The subject matter of semiotics -- ultimately a mode of extending our perception of the world -- is the exchange of any message whatever and of the system of signs which underlie them. »(2) Ferdinand de Saussure defined a sign as the unification of a concept and a sound image wherein, to use his example, arbor carries both the sound of the spoken word, «arbor,» and the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Bulletin of the Comediantes Bulletin of the Comediantes

«¿Que es esto que miro?»: Converging Sign Systems in El medico de su honra

Bulletin of the Comediantes , Volume 30 (2) – Jan 8, 1978

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« ¿QUE ES ESTO QUE MIRO? »: CONVERGING SIGN SYSTEMS WELMEDICO DESUHONRA William R. Blue, University of Kansas El médico de su honra has been a topic for discussion by many critics using several different approaches -- moral, psychological, historical, thematic, New Critical. This paper proposes another way of contemplating the consummate artistry of Calderón through an examination of the stage- craft itself as it is disclosed by the visual markers of the play. A study of those signs allows us to observe how the playwright is able to reach the tion. Before we consider aspects of the nonverbal sign system, a few general concepts from the theory of semiotics, in the form of a brief introduction, are provided. (1) audience through means that are expressly those of a dramatic representa- «The subject matter of semiotics -- ultimately a mode of extending our perception of the world -- is the exchange of any message whatever and of the system of signs which underlie them. »(2) Ferdinand de Saussure defined a sign as the unification of a concept and a sound image wherein, to use his example, arbor carries both the sound of the spoken word, «arbor,» and the

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