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Theatre and Its Other

By Elisa Ganser

Theatre and Its Other

By Elisa Ganser

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What is Dance? What is Theatre? What is the boundary between enacting a character and narrating a story? When does movement become tinted with meaning? And when does beauty shine alone as if with no object? These universal aesthetic questions find a theoretically vibrant and historically informed set of replies in the oeuvre of the eleventh-century Kashmirian author Abhinavagupta. The present book offers the first critical edition, translation, and study of a crucial and lesser known passage of his commentary on the Nāṭyaśāstra, the seminal work of Sanskrit dramaturgy. The nature of dramatic acting and the mimetic power of dance, emotions, and beauty all play a role in Abhinavagupta's thorough investigation of performance aesthetics, now presented to the modern reader.
Product details
Number of Pages:
428
Release Date:
2021-12-16
Publication Date:
2022-02-22
Publisher:
Brill
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
9004449817
ISBN13:
9789004449817
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
732 g
Height:
155 cm
Width:
237 cm
Thickness:
29 cm
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