| Description |
1 online resource (x, 282 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-271) and index. |
| Summary |
"The Poetics of Difference and Displacement is the first book in English that systematically investigates the twentieth-century Chinese-Western intercultural theatre. It demonstrates that what is central to the making of the twentieth-century Chinese-Western intercultural theatre is what the author calls the poetics of difference and displacement, which underlies its most significant aspects." "The Poetics of Difference and Displacement views intercultural theatre as a process of displacement and re-placement of culturally specified and differentiated theatrical forces, rejecting any universalist or essentialist presumptions. It approaches the twentieth-century Chinese-Western intercultural theatre from an aesthetic as well as a social-historic, cultural-political perspective. It examines both the Western theatre's interpretation and interculturation of the Chinese theatre by Bertolt Brecht, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Gordon Craig, Eugenio Barba and Peter Sellars and modern Chinese theatre's interpretation and interculturation of the Western theatre." "This book will appeal to a broad range of readers including academics and students in theatre, performance, and cultural studies. It will also be of interest to a general audience of Chinese culture and intercultural communication."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One; 1 -- From the Neo-Classical to the Early Avant-Garde: Europe's First Encounters with Traditional Chinese Theatre; 2 -- The Effect of Displacement: Brecht's Concept of the "Alienation Effect" and Traditional Chinese Theatre; 3 -- Re-Theatricalizing the Theatre of the Grotesque: Meyerhold's "Theatre of Convention" and Traditional Chinese Theatre; 4 -- "The Danger of Knowing All About the East": Gordon Craig, Mei Lanfang and the Chinese Theatre. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Drama. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Theater -- Western countries -- History -- 20th century.
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Theater. |
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Western countries. |
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History. |
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Chinese drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Chinese drama. |
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Theater -- China -- History -- 20th century.
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China. |
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Intercultural communication.
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Intercultural communication. |
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Civilization, Western -- Chinese influences.
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Civilization, Western -- Chinese influences. |
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China -- Civilization -- Western influences.
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Civilization. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1900-2000 |
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1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tian, Min. Poetics of difference and displacement. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©2008 9789622099074 (DLC) 2008438019 (OCoLC)225876250 |
| ISBN |
9789888052929 (electronic book) |
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9888052926 (electronic book) |
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9789622099074 (hardback) |
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9622099076 (hardback) |
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