The scene as the form of ironic enunciation

Abstract

Understanding theatricality as the referential axis of irony, this paper characterizes scene as the pragmatic exponent of theatrical enuntiation; that is to say, as the referrer format of irony. In that order, it analyses the formal conditions tied to the scene’s spatial character that make possible transiting from imitated things to the imitation itself, in which case word and action adopt specific pre-textual qualities as they are embodied by the actor and the irionist.