Dancing the Dharma: Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater

Author:   Susan Blakeley Klein
Publisher:   Harvard University Press
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9780674247840


Pages:   424
Publication Date:   06 April 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Susan Blakeley Klein
Publisher:   Harvard University Press
Imprint:   Harvard University Press
ISBN:  

9780674247840


ISBN 10:   0674247841
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   06 April 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Takes a fresh and illuminating approach to the interpretation of Noh texts. …This book is deeply interdisciplinary, and Klein is painstaking in her efforts to address the religious and historical contexts needed to capture a glimpse of how Muromachi readers and audiences may have thought about these texts. Dancing the Dharma should appeal to a broad range of readers, including specialists in literary studies, history, drama, poetics, and religious studies, and it makes a significant contribution to scholarship in all those fields. -- Shelley Fenno Quinn * Journal of Asian Studies * If we wish to understand better the ways in which medieval Japanese people understood their world (I know I do), then we would do well to attend to allegoresis and the esoteric, sometimes outlandish, readings they applied to the same classic texts we are reading today for different reasons. … Klein has plowed through them with aplomb and constructed interesting but convincing readings of these difficult texts. A worthy follow-up to her previous book, Dancing the Dharma makes a significant contribution to our understanding of medieval Japanese literature, religion, and drama. -- Paul S. Atkins * Monumenta Nipponica * …The author’s research and argumentation remain meticulous and precise, with painstakingly detailed discussions and contextualizations that point to new implications for each play. In this sense, Dancing the Dharma performatively enacts the analytical strategies of its object of study: by disentangling the intricate layers of meaning in nō plays that are not immediately apparent to the uninitiated, Klein instructs the readers about the ways in which such plays should be experienced and understood more fully. -- Terry Kawashima * Journal of Japanese Studies *


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Susan Blakeley Klein is Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture and Director of Religious Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

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