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Author : Andrew Sneddon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906441012
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Slender Margin Between the Real and the Unreal written by Andrew Sneddon and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leonard C. Pronko
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520312708
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Theater East and West written by Leonard C. Pronko and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.
Author : Eve Joseph
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 162872627X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)
Download or read book In the Slender Margin written by Eve Joseph and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, an extraordinarily moving and engaging look at loss and death. Eve Joseph is an award-winning poet who worked for twenty years as a palliative care counselor in a hospice. When she was a young girl, she lost a much older brother, and her experience as a grown woman helping others face death, dying, and grief opens the path for her to recollect and understand his loss in a way she could not as a child. In the Slender Margin is an insider's look at an experience that awaits us all, and that is at once deeply fascinating, frightening, and in modern society shunned. The book is an intimate invitation to consider death and our response to it without fear or morbidity, but rather with wonder and a curious mind. Writing with a poet's precise language and in short meditative chapters leavened with insight, warmth, and occasional humor, Joseph cites her hospice experience as well as the writings of others across generations—from the realms of mythology, psychology, science, religion, history, and literature—to illuminate the many facets of dying and death. Offering examples from cultural traditions, practices, and beliefs from around the world, her book is at once an exploration of the unknowable and a very humane journey through the land of grief.
Author : Katherine Saltzman-Li
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004193200
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Creating Kabuki Plays written by Katherine Saltzman-Li and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume makes available for the first time a complete translation in English of a key text for our understanding of Kabuki, viz. Kezairoku, Sakusha Shikihô (Valuable Notes on Playwriting, A Playwrights’ Methodology, written 1801), being the only extant treatise fully devoted to the subject of Kabuki playwriting. At the hand of this vital text, the author addresses the history, methodology, and practitioners of Kabuki playwriting of the Edo Period (1603-1867.) The reader will find a critical examination of Kezairoku, and discussions regarding the connections between the Kabuki and literary worlds of Edo Japan, and between playwriting and the oral arts. The availability of the entire Kezairoku in English, together with a full contextualization of its teachings and meanings, offers a volume of great significance to both Japan and theatre scholars.
Author : Dore Ashton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520083400
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Noguchi East and West written by Dore Ashton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An art history professor and author or editor of 30 books on art and culture maps the life of Japanese-American sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) and his spiritual journey, both in the events of his life and in the milestones of his art--the sculptures, gardens, public spaces, and stage decors that gained force and significance from Noguchi's double heritage. Photographs.
Author : Minoru Fujita
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134240899
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare East and West written by Minoru Fujita and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Shakespeare Association meeting, held in Tokyo in August of 1991, was regarded by many of the participating academics as a milestone in terms of the quality of the papers given and extent to which the intercultural and cross-cultural study of Shakespeare had been developed. This volume contains the principal contributions (10) to the panel on Acting and Language in Shakespeare and Eastern Drama, specially edited for publication by Minoru Fujita who teaches at the Graduate School of Culture, University of Osaka, and Leonard Pronko, Professor of Theatre at Pomona College, Claremont, California. The papers are presented in three sections: Playhouses and Performances, Literary History, and Interpretation and Theoretical Issues.
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Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9781422372913
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 149, no. 1, 2005) written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy G. Hume
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 0791424006
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Japanese Aesthetics and Culture written by Nancy G. Hume and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-07-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Some of the essays provide a general introduction to the basic theories of Japanese aesthetics, others deal with poetry and theater, and a third group discusses cultural phenomena directly related to classic Japanese literature.
Author : J. Thomas Rimer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135311935
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Collected Writings of J. Thomas Rimer written by J. Thomas Rimer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely acknowledged as the doyen of twentieth-century Japanese literature, fine art and the performing arts, as well as being renowned for his translations of Zeami and Mori Ogai. Collected Writings of J.Thomas Rimer brings together in whole or in part much of Rimer's prodigious output in these fields over the past forty years, including some of his milestone (fully illustrated) essays on Japanese Art, especially 'Tokyo in Paris/ Paris in Tokyo' (Japan Foundation, 1987).
Author : P. G. O'Neill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134245378
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Collected Writings of P.G. O'Neill written by P. G. O'Neill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special areas: Japanese language, festivals, Noh theatre.
Author : June Jordaan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848885105
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)
Download or read book Dialectics of Space and Place across Virtual and Corporeal Topographies written by June Jordaan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dialectics of Space and Place across Virtual and Corporeal Topographies explores the inter- and multi-disciplinary subjects of space and place in two parts. Part 1 Virtual topographies of Space and Place is concerned with themes related to immaterial places, and Part II Corporeal Topographies of Space and Place explores narratives of real and imagined experiences of places. This volume, underpinned by an array of philosophical positions provides a foundation for new and critical dialogues on space and place.
Author : Tim Prentki
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351120123
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance written by Tim Prentki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth, far-reaching and provocative consideration of how scholars and artists negotiate the theoretical, historical and practical politics of applied performance, both in the academy and beyond. These volumes offer insights from within and beyond the sphere of English-speaking scholarship, curated by regional experts in applied performance. The reader will gain an understanding of some of the dominant preoccupations of performance in specified regions, enhanced by contextual framing. From the dis(h)arming of the human body through dance in Colombia to clowning with dementia in Australia, via challenges to violent nationalism in the Balkans, transgender performance in Pakistan and resistance rap in Kashmir, the essays, interviews and scripts are eloquent testimony to the courage and hope of people who believe in the power of art to renew the human spirit. Students, academics, practitioners, policy-makers, cultural anthropologists and activists will benefit from the opportunities to forge new networks and develop in-depth comparative research offered by this bold, global project.
Author : Ortolani
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004484140
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
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.
Author : Susan Sontag
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429923822
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Where the Stress Falls written by Susan Sontag and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2002-11-09 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Sontag has said that her earliest idea of what a writer should be was "someone who is interested in everything." Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, the now classic Against Interpretation, our most important essayist has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the last two decades that illustrate a deeply felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations, and ideas. "Reading" offers ardent, freewheeling considerations of talismanic writers from her own private canon, such as Marina Tsvetaeva, Randall Jarrell, Roland Barthes, Machado de Assis, W. G. Sebald, Borges, and Elizabeth Hardwick. "Seeing" is a series of luminous and incisive encounters with film, dance, photography, painting, opera, and theatre. And in the final section, "There and Here," Sontag explores some of her own commitments: to the work (and activism) of conscience, to the concreteness of historical understanding, and to the vocation of the writer. Where the Stress Falls records a great American writer's urgent engagement with some of the most significant aesthetic and moral issues of the late twentieth century, and provides a brilliant and clear-eyed appraisal of what is at stake, in this new century, in the survival of that inheritance.
Author : Igor Grbić
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527518310
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book The Occidentocentric Fallacy written by Igor Grbić and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is literature? The question is difficult enough in itself. However, the West has made any hope of a proper answer literally untenable. It has provincialized literature into its own neighbourhood. This book brings together perspectives from both non-Western cultures and minority cultures within a supposed West (normally downsized to represent a part of Europe and the USA). Also considered, as parts of the problem, are various literature-related asymmetries such as global awards and translation. The prime concern of the book is awakening its readers to the fact that, incredibly but truly enough, literature in its total, all-human realization, is something yet to be discovered. It, thus, will especially appeal to literary scholars, making them conscious of the fact that their literary studies actually take into account only a fragment of literature, as well as university students of literature, in the hope it might prevent them from becoming heirs to their professors.
Author : Donald Keene
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802150586
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Anthology of Japanese Literature, from the Earliest Era to the Mid-nineteenth Century written by Donald Keene and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1955 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of Japanese works including poetry, prose and drama.
Author : Dr Alison McQueen Tokita
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 075465379X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (546 download)
Download or read book Japanese Singers of Tales: Ten Centuries of Performed Narrative written by Dr Alison McQueen Tokita and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-03-28 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alison Tokita presents a series of case studies that demonstrate the persistence of Japanese sung narratives in a multiplicity of genres over ten centuries together with factors contributing to change in narrative performance. 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). 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. Tokita includes substantial musical analysis and exploration of theoretical issues, as well as documentation of important performance traditions, all of which are extant.
