Embodied Performance Warriors, Dancers, and the Origins of Noh Theater
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Om bidragsyterne
Matsuoka Shinpei is professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He has published numerous works on medieval Japanese literature and culture.Janet Goff (1946–2022) was a scholar and devotee of noh and the author of Noh Drama and The Tale of the Genji: The Art of Allusion in Fifteen Classical Plays (1991).
Haruo Shirane is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.
<i>Embodied Performance</i> is arguably the most important and influential book on medieval Japanese performance published in the last thirty years. It is a watershed text for bringing together theater history, cultural studies, gender studies, and literary criticism in a holistic, absorbing manner.
- Reginald Jackson, University of Michigan,
Matsuoka Shinpei's multifaceted inquiry into Japanese noh drama, ably translated by the late noh scholar Janet Goff, complements the traditional focus on written texts with an emphasis on the performative. In its exploration of the kinetic aspects of this classic art form and its relationship to a host of other medieval phenomena, <i>Embodied Performance</i> is surely destined to become a classic itself.
- H. Mack Horton, University of California, Berkeley,
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Matsuoka Shinpei is professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He has published numerous works on medieval Japanese literature and culture.Janet Goff (1946–2022) was a scholar and devotee of noh and the author of Noh Drama and The Tale of the Genji: The Art of Allusion in Fifteen Classical Plays (1991).
Haruo Shirane is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.