Restoring VERTICALITY: Image Schemas as a Tool for Analysis of
Contemporary Productions of Baroque  Opera

k 2025

Restoring VERTICALITY: Image Schemas as a Tool for Analysis of Contemporary Productions of Baroque Opera

HAVLÍČKOVÁ KYSOVÁ, Šárka

Základní údaje

Originální název

Restoring VERTICALITY: Image Schemas as a Tool for Analysis of Contemporary Productions of Baroque Opera

Autoři

HAVLÍČKOVÁ KYSOVÁ, Šárka

Vydání

Cognitive Futures in The Arts and Humanities: Cognitive Tools in Action, Messina, Italy, 2025

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60403 Performing arts studies

Stát vydavatele

Itálie

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

theatre; opera; music; cognition; cognitive theatre studies; Monteverdi; lamento; Baroque opera; image schema; VERTICALITY

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 16. 1. 2026 08:42, doc. Mgr. Šárka Havlíčková Kysová, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

Image schemas (Johnson, 1987; Hart, 2007; Oakley, 2007) play a crucial role in theatrical communication between the stage and the audience, and they can be used as an analytical tool for a theatrical performance. They enable not only effective but also rich and complex transmission of meaning, particularly embodied meanings, beyond linguistic expression, although the mode of spoken/sung language is not excluded either from the meaning-making process or analysis. Opera performances communicate and create meaning through a range of modalities that convey emotions—even the subtlest ones—in order to maximize their impact on the spectator. The paper focuses on selected, yet crucially dramatic, scenes from the contemporary productions of Baroque operas. Special interest is focussed on lamento or lamento arias, considered as the manifestation of the overall dramatic situation of the (opera) piece. Special attention is given to the image schema of VERTICALITY. The author shows the VERTICALITY schema in the acting in the context of the direction-scenographic concept of particular productions. The paper deals with the lamento of Orpheo and Dido by Monteverdi and Purcell, respectively. Besides other modalities, the paper focuses on "bodily behavior" mode(s) (e.g., Forceville 2021), the postures, movements, facial expressions, etc., of the actor's/actress's body, representing the character's effort to keep or regain the vertical position of her/his body to manifest character's internal suffering. Once the "key" image schema of the scene is identified, the analyst should search for and relate to it other image schemas that modify the VERTICALITY schema to bring novel interpretation of the work or, as much as possible, intensive a/effect of the performance on the audience.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1713/2024, interní kód MU

Název: Aktuální výzvy divadelních studií II.

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Aktuální výzvy divadelních studií II.

Citovat

HAVLÍČKOVÁ KYSOVÁ, Šárka. Restoring VERTICALITY: Image Schemas as a Tool for Analysis of Contemporary Productions of Baroque Opera. In Cognitive Futures in The Arts and Humanities: Cognitive Tools in Action, Messina, Italy. 2025.

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   booktitle = {Cognitive Futures in The Arts and Humanities: Cognitive Tools in Action, Messina, Italy},
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   language = {eng},
   title = {Restoring VERTICALITY: Image Schemas as a Tool for Analysis of Contemporary Productions of Baroque Opera},
   year = {2025}
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HAVLÍČKOVÁ KYSOVÁ, Šárka. Restoring VERTICALITY: Image Schemas as a Tool for Analysis of Contemporary Productions of Baroque Opera. In \textit{Cognitive Futures in The Arts and Humanities: Cognitive Tools in Action, Messina, Italy}. 2025.

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