Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 2004
Keywords
Dramatic metaphor, Dramatic fiction, Tragicomedy, Comic mirror
Abstract
Metaphor and drama share an essence: transformation. A metaphor carries one world of meaning to another, enlarging what it comes to by what it brings along with it. What is at stake is a meaning, which is transformed to something quite beyond its original state.
Drama takes an action done by characters, and transforms it from the mundane to the meaningful, carrying meaning from the realm of its factuality to wider worlds. Seen this way, drama transforms all action to the act of understanding, of putting some sort of prop under mere fact, of supplying--by some combination of rational, imagistic, associative, and poetic means--context, explanation, cause, meaning, analogy, connection, relation.
Publication Title
The Journal of Religion and Theatre
Volume
3
Issue
1
Required Publisher's Statement
The Journal of Religion and Theatre is published by the Religion and Theatre Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
Copyright is held by the author.
Recommended Citation
Larner, Daniel, "Comic Ritual in a Tragic World: Lessons in the Metaphor of Drama" (2004). Fairhaven Faculty Publications. 4.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/fairhaven_facpubs/4
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
Metaphor; Tragicomedy--History and criticism
Subjects - Names (LCNAF)
Laurel and Hardy (Series); Mamet, David
Genre/Form
articles
Type
Text
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
