Instructions for the imagination. Between caption and ecphrase

Abstract

In the context of a project dedicated to the theory of the dramatic text, in the relationship between diegetic and narrative instances, the present intervention focuses on the caption intended, rather than as a stage "instruction", as an ecphrastic description, therefore an "instruction for the reader” or, if brought onto the scene, of the spectator who listens. The temporal framework concerns above all the literary language and theatrical experimentation of the twentieth century, however in the relationship with a long-lasting tradition of the "visible".