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Learning to kneel : noh, modernism, and journeys in teaching

Title
Learning to kneel : noh, modernism, and journeys in teaching / Carrie J. Preston.
Author
Preston, Carrie J.
Publication
New York : Columbia University Press, 2016.

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Description
xvi, 369 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Modernist latitudes
Uniform Title
Modernist latitudes.
Subject
  • Nō > History
  • Nō plays > Appreciation > Europe
  • European literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • European literature > Japanese influences
  • Modernism (Literature)
  • Acting > Study and teaching > Japan
  • Nō > Influence
Bibliography (note)
  • 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.
ISBN
  • 9780231166508
  • 0231166508
LCCN
2015050685
OCLC
  • ocn930681944
  • 930681944
  • SCSB-5862820
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries