Learning to Kneel - Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching

Learning to Kneel locates noh dramäs influence on American and European writers, dancers, and composers. Carrie J. Preston¿s work has been profoundly shaped by her training in noh performance. While her subjects are often criticized for Orientalist tendencies, Preston¿s own journey reflects a more nuanced understanding of cultural exchange.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction to Noh Lessons
1. Ezra Pound as Noh Student
2. Theater in the "Deep": W. B. Yeats's At the Hawk's Well
3. Ito Michio's Hawk Tours in Modern Dance and Theater
4. Pedagogical Intermission: A Lesson Plan for Bertolt Brecht's Revisions
5. Noh Circles in Twentieth-Century Japanese Performance
6. Trouble with Titles and Directors: Benjamin Britten and William Plomer's Curlew River and Samuel Beckett's Footfalls/Pas
Coda
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Carrie J. Preston is associate professor of English and Women¿s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Arvind and Chandan Nandlal Kilachand Professor and Director of Kilachand Honors College at Boston University. She is the author of Modernism¿s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance (2011), which won the de la Torre Bueno Prize.

Summary

Learning to Kneel locates noh drama’s influence on American and European writers, dancers, and composers. Carrie J. Preston’s work has been profoundly shaped by her training in noh performance. While her subjects are often criticized for Orientalist tendencies, Preston’s own journey reflects a more nuanced understanding of cultural exchange.

Product details

• Authors: Carrie J. Preston, Preston Carrie J.
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780231166515
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16651-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Modernist Latitudes; Modernist Latitudes
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Plays, Playscripts, Literary studies: plays and playwrights