Learning to Kneel Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching [#1047647]

Learning to Kneel: Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching by Carrie J. Preston
English | August 30, 2016 | ISBN: 0231166508, 0231166516 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 74.4 MB
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 Preston traces the ways in which Japanese and Western artists influenced one another.