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Author Preston, Carrie J., author.

Title Learning to kneel : noh, modernism, and journeys in teaching / Carrie J. Preston.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, 2016.
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 369 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Modernist latitudes
Modernist latitudes.
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.
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Subject Nō -- History.
Nō.
History.
Nō plays -- Appreciation -- Europe.
Nō plays -- Appreciation.
Europe.
European literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
European literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject European literature -- Japanese influences.
Modernism (Literature)
Modernism (Literature)
Acting -- Study and teaching -- Japan.
Acting -- Study and teaching.
Japan.
Nō -- Influence.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
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)
0231541546 (electronic book)
9780231544290 (electronic book)
0231544294 (electronic book)
9780231166508 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0231166508 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)