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Learning to kneel : noh, modernism, and journeys in teaching /
Throughout the twentieth century, Japanese noh drama was a major creative catalyst for American and European writers, dancers, and composers. The noh theater's stylized choreography, poetic chant, spectacular costumes and masks, and engagement with history inspired Western artists as they reima...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Modernist latitudes.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Throughout the twentieth century, Japanese noh drama was a major creative catalyst for American and European writers, dancers, and composers. The noh theater's stylized choreography, poetic chant, spectacular costumes and masks, and engagement with history inspired Western artists as they reimagined new approaches to tradition and form. In Learning to Kneel, Carrie J. Preston locates noh's influence on Pound's imagism, Yeats's Irish National Theater, Brecht's learning plays, Britten's church parables, and Beckett's spare dramaturgy. These artists learned about noh from an international cast of ... |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 369 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231541541 0231541546 9780231544290 0231544294 |