The use of Asian theatre for modern Western theatre : the displaced mirror /
This book is a historical study of the use of Asian theater for modern Western theater as practiced by its founding fathers, including Aurélien Lugné-Poe, Adolphe Appia, Gordon Craig, W. B. Yeats, Jacques Copeau, Charles Dullin, Antonin Artaud, V. E. Meyerhold, Sergei Eisenstein and Bertolt Brecht....
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2018.
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history.
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| Summary: | This book is a historical study of the use of Asian theater for modern Western theater as practiced by its founding fathers, including Aurélien Lugné-Poe, Adolphe Appia, Gordon Craig, W. B. Yeats, Jacques Copeau, Charles Dullin, Antonin Artaud, V. E. Meyerhold, Sergei Eisenstein and Bertolt Brecht. It investigates the theories and practices of these leading figures in their transnational and cross-cultural relationship with Asian theatrical traditions and their interpretations and appropriations of the Asian traditions in their reactional struggles against the dominance of commercialism and naturalism. From the historical and aesthetic perspectives of traditional Asian theaters, it approaches this intercultural phenomenon as a (Euro)centred process of displacement of the aesthetically and culturally differentiated Asian theatrical traditions and of their historical differences and identities. Looking into the displaced and distorted mirror of Asian theater, the founding fathers of modern Western theater saw, in their imagination of the 'ghostly' Other, nothing but a (self-)reflection or, more precisely, a (self-)projection and emplacement, of their competing ideas and theories preconceived for the construction, and the future development, of modern Western theater. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 313 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 3319971778 9783319971773 |