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Terminology Flashcards

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addresser

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extratextual level: Author
intratextual level: Characters

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adressee

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extratextual level: real reade, audience
intratextual llevel: Character

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primary text

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dialogue and character remarks on the intratextual level, spoken by the actors

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secondary text

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includes all constituent parts of a dramatic text (stage directions, title of the play, preface)

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“the absolute nature of dramatic texts” (Pfister)

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lack of mediating level of communication -> no narrator
a characteristic aspect of drama

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epic drama

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drama containing narrative elements

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alienation effect

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“Verfremdungseffekt”

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exposition

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transmission of introductory information requiered to understand the initial dramatic effect
referential function: informing the reader about the history preceding the action, introducing them to time and place of the action as well as the characters
initial - integrated

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introduction

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establishes a communication channel between the stage and the audience
phatic function -> to awaken interest, to acclimatize the audience to the atmosphere of the play

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analytical drama

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extreme form of integrated exposition - exposition continues throughout the entire play/text; gradual disclosure of past events that have led to the initial situation

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monologue

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characters speak alone, but in the presence of others

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soliloquy

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characters speak alone with no other character on stage; often used for the communnication of innermost feelings

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dialogue

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succession of remarks and counter-remarks between two or more characters

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teichoscopy

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Characters observe and report events that are happening off-stage

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aside

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“Beiseitesprechen” frequently not addressed to another character on stage but to the extratextual level, the reader or audience

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monological aside

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other characters on stage do not hear what is spoken
Character speaks to him or herself

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dialogical aside

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whispering on stage

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aside ad spectatores

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break the forth wall

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dramatic irony

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based on the discrepency between knowledge from the characters and the audience. The irony is that the audience can’t do anything with the knowledge

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discrepant awareness

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the characters/Characters-audience have different levels of information
Special form: dramatic irony

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congruent awareness

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the characters/Characters-audience have the same level of information

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theories of Character

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mimetic approaches: character is real with a psyche
structuralist approaches: characters are functional roles performed by characters. They are functions of the plot not “real” people or psychological entities

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dramatis personae

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all literary characters appearing in a play

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correspondence and contrast

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similarities and differences between characters (helpful to find out their function)

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Character constellation

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the dynamic structure of the dramatis personae. relationships between characters throughout the play.

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Character configuration

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focuses on character configuration on stage. how many characters are on stage, is one character part of most configurations and hence very importante or only marginal

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Character perspective

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the individual more or less restricted view of “reality” of every character (level of knowledge, psychological dispositions, norms, values)

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perspective structure

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entirety of character perspectives and their relationship to each other. Do they add up to one “world view” (closed) or are there different ones and hence a higher degree of insecurity as to who’s right (open)

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type

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a character who has few charcteristics or individual features (in fiction: flat character)

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individual

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character with large number of characteristics (often developing in the course of the play) (in fiction: round character)

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figural characterization

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information about a character is supplied primarily by speech, gestures and actions

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authorial characterization

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Information about the character is derived from the structure of the entire play

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unity of time and place

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no change in setting and time (no flashbacks, or flashforwards, no ellipses) -> in classic drama, one day is shown in one setting

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unity of action

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closed action with beginning, middle and end (no beginning in medias res)

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closed temporal structure

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time restricted to one day or a similarly homogenous amount of time

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open temporal structure

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time is not restricted to one day

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fictional space

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the stage and props represent some fictional or imaginary space that is only partially represented; characters may refer to places they have been

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word scenery

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creates an imaginary scene and engages the audience to imagine what is only verbally represented (as opposed to props)

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semanticization of space

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space becomes a bearer of meaning

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fictional time

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duration spanned by the stage events

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performance time

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duration of the individual performance

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performativity

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A drama is made to be experienced on stage

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Communication

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works different, there is no narrator

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Collectivity

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of reception (audience)
of production (many workser, actors etc.)

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Multimediality

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Costumes, facial expressions, Light, Music, scenery

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monologue

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one Character is talking but others are present

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Soliliquy

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one Character is talking but no others are present

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Dialogue

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two or more Characters are talking

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utterances

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name: text
name: text
name: text

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stichomythia

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very short utterances

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Aside: monological

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other characters on stage do not hear the short comment made by one character

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Aside: dialogical

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whispering on stage

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Aside ad spectatores

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direct address of the audience
which other characters cannot hear)

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teichoscopy

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Character sees something off scene and expains it while is is happening

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messengers report

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Character explains something that happened off stage at a different time

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Comedy

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misscomunication but funny

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Tragedy

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misscomunication but tragic and sad

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external communication system

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Difference in level of Information between Characters and audience

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internal communication system

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Difference in level of Information between Characters

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discrepant awareness

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different amount of information

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congruent awareness

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same amount of information

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dramatic Irony

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The audience knows something that the Characters don’t but they are not able to do something

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exposition

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audience gets Background information
isolated: seperat from story at the begonning
integrated: happens during the story

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dramatic introduction

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doesn’t give Background information, is supposed to show the atmosphere of the play and should wake interest in the audience

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5 Acts

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  1. exposition
  2. development of the Conflict
  3. Climax
  4. moment of delay
  5. Catastrophy/denoument
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Climax: Anagnorisis

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important information is revealed

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Climax: peripeteia

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a sudden reversal in circumstances

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open form

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you don’t really know how everything ended

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closed form

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there is a real ending

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theological Drama

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there is a goal and everything that is happening is to reach the goal

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analytical Drama

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something important happend before the start of the drama and the drama deals with it and its aftereffects

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