Description: Preface 1. Introduction The Problem Methodology and Organization Significance 2. The Development of the text in American Folkloristics The Ethnolinguistic Model of the Text The Literary Model of the Text Precursors to me Performance Approach Performance-Centered Experimentation with the Text Conclusion 3. The Performance Approach: Implications For the Text Key Concepts of the Performance Approach Problems of the Performance Approach: Making the Text Fit the Theory An Aesthetic Transaction Model of Performance Conclusion 4. Intersemiotic Translation From Performance to Print Objections to Translating Performance A Definition of the Text Translation Theory Conclusion 5. Analysis of Source and Receptor Media: Performance and Print Source Medium: Performance Aural Channel: Linguistic and Paralinguistic Visual Channel: Kinesic, Artifactual, and Proxemic Tactile and Olfactory Channels Receptor Medium: Print Digital and Iconic Projections Total Impact of Projections Conclusions 6. Principle of Translating Performance Formal and Dynamic Equivalence Analytical and Perceptual Equibalence Making the Performance Report Making the Performance Record Conclusion 7. An Illustration of a Performance-Centered Text The Report The Record The Performance-Centered Text and the Literary Text: A Comparison Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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