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Rasa : performing the Divine in India /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schwartz, Susan L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass Pub., 2008.
Edition:1st Indian ed.
Subjects:
Performing arts > India > Religious aspects.
Rāsa līlā (Dance)
Rāsa literature.
Performing arts > Religious aspects.
India.
Table of Contents:
  • Transliteration and romanization
  • 1. A taste of things to come
  • 2. Rasa in theory: text and context
  • Etymological ingredients
  • Sources of inspiration
  • A written recipe for the arts
  • Influences and implications
  • 3. Rasa in practice: drama, dance, music
  • All the stage is but a world
  • Dance as mystery
  • Bharata Natyam
  • Shringara Rasa: what love has to do with it
  • Kathak
  • Kathakali
  • Good taste in music
  • Dissonance, assonance, variation, transcendence
  • 4. Transformations in time and space.