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Book Synopsis The Ballad-Drama of Medieval Japan by : James T. Araki
Download or read book The Ballad-Drama of Medieval Japan written by James T. Araki and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Kowaka, the 16th century ballad-drama, including stylistic analysis and explication of the texts, with examples, plus two complete librettos.
Book Synopsis The Ballad-Drama of Medieval Japan by : James T. Araki
Download or read book The Ballad-Drama of Medieval Japan written by James T. Araki and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions by : Elizabeth A. Oyler
Download or read book Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions written by Elizabeth A. Oyler and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2005-12-31 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions investigates some of the most historically important political and social issues raised by the Genpei War (1180-1185). This epic civil conflict, which ushered in Japan’s age of the warriors, is most famously articulated in the monumental narrative Heike monogatari (The Tale of the Heike). Elizabeth Oyler’s ambitious work lays out the complex interconnections between the numerous variant texts of the Heike and the historical events they describe. But Oyler’s innovative methodology also brings other texts and genres—the Gikeiki, the Soga monogatari, the Azuma kagami, and pieces from the kōwakamai (ballad-dramas) repertoire—into her analysis. Rather than concentrating on individual texts, Oyler focuses on the inter-textual relationships within this larger body of narrative and drama and the collective role of these works in creating and disseminating stories about some of the Genpei War’s most contentious events. In so doing, she works toward a new understanding of the underlying cultural problems of which these tales are symptomatic and which they attempt to address.
Book Synopsis The Taiheiki: a Chronicle of Medieval Japan by : H. Craig MacCullough
Download or read book The Taiheiki: a Chronicle of Medieval Japan written by H. Craig MacCullough and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Japanese Singers of Tales: Ten Centuries of Performed Narrative by : Alison McQueen Tokita
Download or read book Japanese Singers of Tales: Ten Centuries of Performed Narrative written by Alison McQueen Tokita and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alison McQueen Tokita presents a series of case studies that demonstrate the persistence of Japanese sung narratives in a multiplicity of genres over ten centuries, including the way they flourished and declined, together with factors contributing to development and change in narrative performance. Performed narratives are examples of a shared cultural heritage, which in the past have given people a sense of belonging to a community. Narratives that were continually re-told and recycled in different versions and formats over a long period of time served to build people's sense of a common identity over space (the geographical extent of 'Japan') and time (the enduring power of many specific narratives such as The Tale of the Heike). Much scholarly attention has focused on Japanese pre-modern literature and drama, but the tradition of oral narrative has barely been touched. Tokita argues that it is possible to identify a continuous tradition of performed narrative in Japan from the tenth to the twentieth centuries. The elements of variation and change relate to the move away from oral narrative to text-based performance, and from a simple narrative situation with one performer to complex theatrical narratives with dancers, singers and other musicians. The resulting complexity led to the pre-eminence of the musical aspects in some cases, and of dramatic or dance aspects in others. Tokita includes substantial musical analysis and exploration of theoretical issues, as well as documentation of important performance traditions, all of which are extant.
Book Synopsis New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan by : Helen Hardacre
Download or read book New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan written by Helen Hardacre and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1997-06 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays on Meiji Japan, written by scholars from nine nations, reflect a determination to destabilize existing paradigms in the social sciences and humanities, in favor of a multiplicity of perspectives that privilege subjectivity and the inclusion of non-elite groups.
Book Synopsis Traditional Japanese Theater by : Karen Brazell
Download or read book Traditional Japanese Theater written by Karen Brazell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of its kind: a collection of the most important genres of Japanese performance--noh, kyogen, kabuki, and puppet theater--in one comprehensive, authoritative volume.
Download or read book Audience and Actors written by Jacob Raz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The theatre in history by : George Riley Kernodle
Download or read book The theatre in history written by George Riley Kernodle and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Japanese Theatre written by Ortolani and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date cultural history of the Japanese theatre in all its forms including primitive rituals, court and popular dance-drama, puppet shows and westernized plays, is narrated here for the first time in English by a western authority in the field. The book underlines Zeami and Zenchiku's secret tradition of the nō, explaining Zen-inspired spiritual teachings for the actor's training on the way to enlightened performance. It also gives relevance to the transformation of an anti-establishment entertainment by prostitutes into spectacular kabuki stagecraft, and to the modernization process which created shingeki modern drama, and moved it into the context of world theatre. The final chapter summarizes the history of western discovery of the Japanese stage. The illustrations, the indexes, the glossary and the extensive bibliography — including all major literature in western languages until 1989 — also contribute to make this volume a must for all students of the Japanese theatre, and for anyone interested in a better understanding of Japanese culture as mirrored in its theatrical component.
Book Synopsis Swords, Oaths, And Prophetic Visions by : Elizabeth Oyler
Download or read book Swords, Oaths, And Prophetic Visions written by Elizabeth Oyler and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates some historically important political and social issues raised by the Genpei War (1180-1185). This epic civil conflict, which ushered in Japan's age of the warriors, is famously articulated in the monumental narrative Heike monogatari (The Tale of the Heike).
Download or read book N? ; And, Bunraku written by Donald Keene and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Keene combines informative works on two forms of classical Japanese theater into a single volume. The No text looks at all aspects of this traditional theater form including its history, its stage and props, the use of music and dance in its performances, the plays as literature, and the aesthetics of No. Also discussed are Kyogen, the comic farces that are typically interspersed with the solemn No dramas.
Book Synopsis A Kabuki Reader by : Samuel L. Leiter
Download or read book A Kabuki Reader written by Samuel L. Leiter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique in any Western language, this is an invaluable resource for the study of one of the world's great theatrical forms. It includes essays by established experts on Kabuki as well as younger scholars now entering the field, and provides a comprehensive survey of the history of Kabuki; how it is written, produced, staged, and performed; and its place in world theater. Compiled by the editor of the influential Asian Theater Journal, the book covers four essential areas - history, performance, theaters, and plays - and includes a translation of one Kabuki play as an illustration of Kabuki techniques.
Download or read book Tales of Tears and Laughter written by and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in this collection constitute just a small portion of a vast body of some four hundred short narratives known as otogizoshi. They represent a cross section of medieval Japan in its richness and complexity, a panoply of life teeming with all the possibilities and contradictions of the age.
Book Synopsis Warlords, Artists and Commoners by : George Elison
Download or read book Warlords, Artists and Commoners written by George Elison and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Japanese Society written by Chie Nakane and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1972-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brilliant wedding of 'national character' studies and analyses of small societies through the structural approach of British anthropology. One is of course reminded of Ruth Benedict's Chrysanthemum and the Sword which deals also with Japanese national culture. Studies by Margaret Mead and Geoffrey Gorer deal with other national cultures; however, all of these studies take off from national psychology. Professor Nakane comes to explanation of the behavior of Japanese through analysis rather of historical social structure of Japanese society, beginning with the way any two Japanese perceive each other, and following through to the nature of the Japanese corporation and the whole society. Nakane's remarkable achievement, which has already given new insight about themselves to the Japanese, promises to open up a new field of large-society comparative social anthropology which is long overdue." —Sol Tax "This is an important book!"--Robert E. Cole, Journal of Asian Studies "If you have time for just one book on Japan, try this one."--David Plath, Asian Student "Should be taken to heart by everyone who has dealings with Japan. . . .Even those--or, perhaps, most of all those--who know Japan intimately will be grateful to Professor Nakane for her brilliant study."--Times Literary Supplement
Book Synopsis The Japanese Theatre by : Benito Ortolani
Download or read book The Japanese Theatre written by Benito Ortolani and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ancient ritualistic practices to modern dance theatre, this study provides concise summaries of all major theatrical art forms in Japan. It situates each genre in its particular social and cultural contexts, describing in detail staging, costumes, repertory and noteworthy actors.
