The Ethos of Noh: Actors and Their Art
by Rath, Eric C
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- ISBN 10
- 0674013972
- ISBN 13
- 9780674013971
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About This Item
Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge (Massachusetts), 2004 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 23.5 x 16 cm; 0.7 kg; 317 pages with a few colour illustrations.; Used book with almost no signs of wear. As new. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; Harvard East Asian Monographs, 232.; Since the inception of the noh drama six centuries ago, actors have resisted the notion that noh rests on natural talent alone. Correct performance, they claim, demands adherence to "traditions". Yet what constitutes noh's traditions and who can claim authority over them have been in dispute throughout noh's history. This book traces how definitions of noh, both as an art and a profession, have changed over time. The author seeks to show that the definition of noh as an art is inseparable from its definition as a profession. Accordingly he analyzes the mechanisms and the agents who have determined what noh meant both as an art and as a profession. The aim of this book is to describe how memories of the past become traditions, as well as the role of these traditions in the institutional development of the noh theater from its beginnings in the fourteenth century through the late tweentieh century. It focuses on the development of the key development of the key traditions that constitute the "ethos of noh", the ideology that empowered certain groups of actors at the expense of others, and how this ethos fostered noh's professionalization - its growth from a loose occupation into a closed, regulated vocation. The author argues that the traditions that form the ethos of noh, such as those surrounding masks and manuscripts, are the key traits that define it as an art. .
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- Bookseller
- Jorge Welsh Books (PT)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 678B
- Title
- The Ethos of Noh: Actors and Their Art
- Author
- Rath, Eric C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0674013972
- ISBN 13
- 9780674013971
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge (Massachusetts)
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Ma, U.s.a
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- asia,japan,theater,noh
- Bookseller catalogs
- Asian Art; Japanese Art;
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