Progressive Traditions
An Illustrated Study of Plot Repetition in Traditional Japanese Theatre
Biographical note
Helen S.E. Parker, D.Phil (1994) in Oriental Studies (Japanese), St Anne's College, University of Oxford, is Lecturer in Japanese at the University of Edinburgh. Her main areas of interest are traditional Japanese theatre and its illustration through multimedia.
Readership
Scholars, performers teachers, students and all those interested in traditional Japan and Japanese performing arts or comparative approaches to drama and performance.
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Authorizing the Shogunate is a study of the symbolic construction of warrior order in the Heike monogatari corpus.
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Sacred Space in the Modern City offers new and original perspectives on a number of controversial issues and important questions concerning Japanese pre- and post-war ideology and identity. The author uses Meiji shrine as a lens with which to investigate the nature of the society that created, ...
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In Japanese Historiography and the Gold Seal of 57 C.E., Joshua Fogel examines the waves of historiographical analysis that this first item to pass officially from China to Japan has undergone in the two-plus centuries since its discovery.
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Crossing Boundaries in Tokugawa Society presents a vivid picure of the life of Suzuki Bokushi (1770-1842), an elite villager in a snowy province of Japan, focusing on his interaction with the changing social and cultural environment of the late Tokugawa period (1603-1868).
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In Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (ca. 800-1200), Joseph T. Sorensen illustrates how painted screens and other visual art objects contributed to the development of some of the essential characteristics of Japanese court poetry.
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Public Opinion – Propaganda – Ideology offers an account of the interwar discourse on the social function of the press in Japan.
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Intellectual life in Edo-period Japan was sometimes harmoniously productive, sometimes destructively vicious, but never stagnant. This volume, compiled in honour of Prof. W.J. Boot, offers eleven essays that explore the intellectual scene of Edo-period Japan from a variety of perspectives.
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By systematically analyzing the process of female fantasy formation, this book represents the first extensive critical attempt to examine Japanese women's narratives of male homosexuality, including both purely literary works (with English translations) and material derived from popular culture.
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Shinchō-Kō ki, the work translated here into English under the title “The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga,” is the most important source on the career of one of the best known figures in all of Japanese history—Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582), the first of the “Three Heroes” who unified Japan after a ...
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Essays on Japan is a compilation of Professor Michael F. Marra’s essays written in the past ten
years on the topics of Japanese literature, Japanese aesthetics, and the space between the two subjects.
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