Beschreibung:
Learning to Kneel locates noh dramäs influence on American and European writers, dancers, and composers. Carrie J. Preston¿s work has been profoundly shaped by her training in noh performance. While her subjects are often criticized for Orientalist tendencies, Preston¿s own journey reflects a more nuanced understanding of cultural exchange.
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction to Noh Lessons1. Ezra Pound as Noh Student2. Theater in the "Deep": W. B. Yeats's At the Hawk's Well3. Ito Michio's Hawk Tours in Modern Dance and Theater4. Pedagogical Intermission: A Lesson Plan for Bertolt Brecht's Revisions5. Noh Circles in Twentieth-Century Japanese Performance6. Trouble with Titles and Directors: Benjamin Britten and William Plomer's Curlew River and Samuel Beckett's Footfalls/PasCodaNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex