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1 online resource (xvi, 369 pages). |
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polychrome |
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Modernist latitudes
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Modernist latitudes.
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Summary |
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 ... |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction to noh lessons -- Ezra Pound as noh student -- Theater in the "deep": W.B. Yeats's at the Hawk's well -- Ito Michio's hawk tours in modern dance and theater -- Pedagogical intermission: a lesson plan for Bertolt Brecht's Revisions -- Noh circles in twentieth-century Japanese performance -- Trouble with titles and directors: Benjamin Britten and William Plomer's Curlew -- River and Samuel Beckett's Footfalls/pas -- Coda. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Nō -- History.
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Nō. |
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History. |
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Nō plays -- Appreciation -- Europe.
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Nō plays -- Appreciation. |
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Europe. |
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European literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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European literature. |
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20th century |
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European literature -- Japanese influences.
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Modernism (Literature)
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Modernism (Literature) |
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Acting -- Study and teaching -- Japan.
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Acting -- Study and teaching. |
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Japan. |
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Nō -- Influence.
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Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Preston, Carrie J. Learning to kneel. New York : Columbia University Press, [2016] 9780231166508 (DLC) 2015050685 (OCoLC)930681944 |
ISBN |
9780231541541 (electronic book) |
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0231541546 (electronic book) |
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9780231544290 (electronic book) |
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0231544294 (electronic book) |
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9780231166508 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0231166508 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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