@article{5952ae20435d40768aead9b2057dffe3,
title = "Iconography and intertextuality: the dsicreet charm of meaning",
abstract = "I was recently warned by a post-structuralist theatre historian to “Beware meaning for, as Baudrillard says: {\textquoteleft}meaning is the death certificate of Art{\textquoteright}.” My methodology for the analysis of dance/music relationships (in which meanings or significances drawn from one dance are allowed to resonate in the interpretation of another) can be seen to reveal an allegiance to {\textquoteleft}bourgeois humanism{\textquoteright} (Eagleton, 1988). Bunuel{\textquoteright}s film The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie indicates my probable fate. Using a work by Mark Morris as an example I propose that, taking a Peircean (rather than Saussurean) construction of semiotics, it becomes possible to deal with the contingent meanings that can result from, and contribute to, an {\textquoteleft}open{\textquoteright}, intertextual, reading and thereby further the development of dance analysis.",
keywords = "Dance Analysis, Mark Morris, {"}Dido and Aeneas{"}, Structuralism, Post-structuralism",
author = "Sophia Preston",
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year = "1998",
language = "English",
volume = "21",
pages = "241--252",
}