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Learning to Kneel: Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching
Carrie J. Preston
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Description for Learning to Kneel: Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching
Hardback. Series: Modernist Latitudes. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; AN; DSB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 676.
In this inventive mix of criticism, scholarship, and personal reflection, Carrie J. Preston explores the nature of cross-cultural teaching, learning, and performance. Throughout the twentieth century, Japanese noh 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, Preston locates noh's important influence on such canonical figures as Pound, Yeats, Brecht, Britten, and Beckett. These writers learned about noh from an international cast of collaborators, and ... Read more
In this inventive mix of criticism, scholarship, and personal reflection, Carrie J. Preston explores the nature of cross-cultural teaching, learning, and performance. Throughout the twentieth century, Japanese noh 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, Preston locates noh's important influence on such canonical figures as Pound, Yeats, Brecht, Britten, and Beckett. These writers learned about noh from an international cast of collaborators, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Modernist Latitudes
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231166508
SKU
V9780231166508
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About Carrie J. Preston
Carrie J. Preston is associate professor of English and director of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Boston University. Her book, Modernism's Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance, won the De La Torre Bueno Prize, and her articles have appeared in Modernism/modernity, Theatre Journal, Twentieth-Century Literature, and Modernist Cultures.
Reviews for Learning to Kneel: Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching
What drew Western writers to an arcane, highly stylized form of Japanese court theater? As a scholar, Carrie J. Preston answers this question by way of the archive, unearthing a global network of dancers and writers. But she also pursues this question as a student, subjecting herself to the rigors of noh training. The result is an unusual blend of ... Read more