La « pantomime » selon Diderot. Le geste et la démonstration morale
Abstracts
Diderot and the art of pantomime
The main characteristic of Diderot’s æsthetic theories concerning theatre and pantomime is a strong attachment to gesture, inspired both by the sensualist conception of language and the theory of the expression of passions. However, the priority of actions over speech proclaimed by the notion of ‘pantomime’ in works such as Lettre sur les sourds et muets, Entretiens sur le fils naturel and the Salons, does not imply a gratuitous abolition of speech in favour of gesture. On the contrary, Diderot’s notion of ‘pantomime’ shows the interdependence of speech and the language of gesture in the representation and communication of passions. This requires a complicated process of interpretation, linking questions of image, semiology and rhetoric.
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Hisashi Ida, “La « pantomime » selon Diderot. Le geste et la démonstration morale”, Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie [Online], 27 | 1999, Online since 04 August 2007, connection on 28 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/rde/871; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/rde.871
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