The poetics of detection in 'Provincetown Playhouse'

Can theories on the transmission and creation of meaning shed light on the vision of beauty (and its counterpart, ugliness) in Normand Chaurette's pla y Provincetown Playhouse, juillet 1919, j'avais 19 ans? Just as the process of detection works within a system based on relations of substitution, the play's aesthetic vision works through metaphoric thought. Thus, the creati on of meaning and the creation of feeling would appear to be aspects of a s ingle awe-inspiring process.