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Author:

Preston, Carrie J., author.

Title:

Learning to kneel : noh, modernism, and journeys in teaching / Carrie J. Preston.

Publisher:

Columbia University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xvi, 369 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

No--History.
No plays--Appreciation--Europe.
European literature--20th century--History and criticism.
European literature--Japanese influences.
Modernism (Literature)
Acting--Study and teaching--Japan.
No--Influence.

Notes:

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.

Series:

Modernist latitudes

ISBN:

0231166508
9780231166508

OCLC:

(OCoLC)930681944

LCCN:

2015050685

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)