Wondrous Brutal Fictions

Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-231-51833-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Wondrous Brutal Fictions presents eight seminal works from the seventeenth-century Japanese sekkyo and ko-joruri puppet theaters, many translated into English for the first time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kimbrough, Keller

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatertheorie, Ästhetik des Theaters, Theaterkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Notes on the Translation
Introduction
Sansho Dayu
Karukaya
Shintokumaru
Oguri
Sayohime
Aigo-no-waka
Amida's Riven Breast
Goo-no-hime
Appendix 1. Major Sekkyo Chanters
Appendix 2. Works in This Volume
Glossary
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

R. Keller Kimbrough is an associate professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University and has taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Virginia, Colby College, and the University of Colorado. He is the author of Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way: Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan.