Dancing the dharma : religious and political allegory in Japanese noh theater /

Dancing the dharma : religious and political allegory in Japanese noh theater /

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Author / Creator:	Klein, Susan Blakeley, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2021. ©2021
Description:	xvi, 401 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Harvard East Asian monographs ; 435 Harvard East Asian monographs ; 435.
Subject:	Nō. Nō plays. Allegory. Symbolism in literature. Theater -- Japan -- History -- To 1600 -- History and criticism. Japanese drama -- 1185-1600 -- History and criticism. Allegory. Japanese drama. Nō Nō plays. Symbolism in literature. Theater. Japan. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12572979

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Varying Form of Title:	Religious and political allegory in Japanese noh theater
ISBN:	9780674247840 0674247841
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Dancing the Dharma examines the theory and practice of allegory by exploring a select group of medieval Japanese noh plays and treatises. Author Susan Blakeley Klein demonstrates how medieval esoteric commentaries on the tenth-century poem-tale Ise monogatari (Tales of Ise) and the first imperial waka poetry anthology Kokin wakashū influenced the plots, characters, imagery, and rhetorical structure of seven plays (Maiguruma, Kuzu no hakama, Unrin'in, Oshio, Kakitsubata, Ominameshi, Haku Rakuten) and two treatises (Zeami's Rikugi and Zenchiku's Meishukushū). In so doing, she shows that it was precisely the allegorical mode-vital to medieval Japanese culture as a whole-that enabled the complex layering of character and poetic landscape we typically associate with noh. Understanding noh's allegorical structure and paying attention to the localized historical context for individual plays, argues Klein, are key to recovering their original function as political and religious allegories. Now viewed in the context of contemporaneous beliefs and practices of the medieval period, noh plays take on a greater range and depth of meaning and offer new insights into medieval Japan to readers today"--
Standard no.:	40030420722

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