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This monograph is a systematic theoretical and pragmatic elaboration of the interpretive approach to understanding the power of experience of a theatrical work. The boundaries of interpretation of theatrical works, i.e. the relations between text, context, extra-text and extra-context, and also overinterpretation and underinterpretation, are some of the specific topics analysed in the monograph. It explains various theoretical standpoints, which lead to the understanding of morphological, expressive and meaning variability of theatrical works, as well as their interpretive stability. The basic questions are: What is the reason for a theoretical work's formal, expressional and semantic variability? What are the rigid and stable components of a theatrical work, including its reception? The monograph builds on the reception aesthetics of the Nitra School (Slovakia) and its Theory of Interpretation (Popovič, Miko, Žilka, Plesník etc.), other humanities disciplines (Eco, Rorty, Culler, Lotman etc.) and the theoretical concepts in theatre (Fischer-Lichte, Ubersfeld, Pavice, Zich, Osolsobě etc.).

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Prof Dr Dagmar Inštitorisová, DrSc (1961) is a Professor of Aesthetics, theatrologist, novelist and university teacher. She graduated from the Department of Aesthetics and Art Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia (1983). She specializes in the theory and history of theatrical interpretation, contemporary Slovak theatre, creative drama, art criticism and art theory. She is the author of a series of scientific monographs and editor and co-author of collective monographs and anthologies on the reception theory of interpretation of theatre art. She publishes nationally and internationally (UK, FR, IT, PL, AU, RS, CZ etc.). She also writes literary and radio fairy tales. She was the principal investigator/responsible researcher in many projects in the field of theatre arts and participated in many projects dealing with art history. For example, in 2010-2014, she led the European Social Fund project Education Through Theatre (45 publications, 27 workshops and many other educational activities). She currently works at the Department of Journalism and New Media, Faculty of Arts, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia.

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