Theatre and Its Other

Abhinavagupta on Dance and Dramatic Acting

AvElisa Ganser

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Del 23 i serien Gonda Indological Studies

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Beskrivning

What is Dance? What is Theatre? What is the boundary between enacting a character and narrating a story? When does movement become tinted with meaning? And when does beauty shine alone as if with no object? These universal aesthetic questions find a theoretically vibrant and historically informed set of replies in the oeuvre of the eleventh-century Kashmirian author Abhinavagupta. The present book offers the first critical edition, translation, and study of a crucial and lesser known passage of his commentary on the Nāṭyaśāstra, the seminal work of Sanskrit dramaturgy. The nature of dramatic acting and the mimetic power of dance, emotions, and beauty all play a role in Abhinavagupta’s thorough investigation of performance aesthetics, now presented to the modern reader.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-02-22
Mått:155 x 235 x 32 mm
Vikt:834 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Gonda Indological Studies
Antal sidor:414
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004449817

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Elisa Ganser, Ph.D. (La Sapienza, Rome), is a researcher at the Department of Indian Studies at the University of Zurich. She has published articles on Indian theatre and dance, and co-edited Theatrical and Ritual Boundaries in South Asia (CIS 19.1–2, 20.1).

Innehållsförteckning

Preface0 Introduction0.1 A Forgotten Chapter in the History of Indian Aesthetics0.2 Recovering Dance through Texts: A Note on Method1 Nāṭyaśāstra and Abhinavabhāratī: Trends and Open Questions1.1 Editorial History and Textual Reception1.2 Archiving Performance: Texts and Images1.3 The Nāṭyaśāstra and the Place of Dance in It1.4 The Abhinavabhāratī: A Medieval Document on PerformancePart 1 Practice and Aesthetics of Indian Dance2 Formalizing Dance, Codifying Performance2.1 Nāṭya, nṛtta, and nṛtya between Movement and Mimesis2.2 Dance as Technique: aṅgahāra, karaṇa, recaka2.3 Between Gender and Genre: tāṇḍava, sukumāra, lāsya2.4 Expanding the Idea of nṛtta2.5 Tradition, Creativity, and Artistry: A Śaiva Perspective3 The Aesthetics of Dance3.1 Dance within Theatre, Dance without Theatre3.2 Enacting Emotions: A vademecum for the Actor3.3 Communication without Words3.4 Dance, Beauty, and the Fabrication of Dramatic Fiction3.5 Reshaping the Idea of abhinaya in DancePart 2 Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of Abhinavabhāratī ad Nāṭyaśāstra 4.261cd–269ab4 Introduction to the Edition4.1 General Remarks on the Transmission of the Abhinavabhāratī4.2 Genealogy of the Present Text: The Sources4.3 A Note on the Sanskrit Text and Translation4.4 Symbols and Abbreviations in the ApparatusAnalysis of ABh ad NŚ 4.261cd–269abEdition and Translation: Abhinavabhāratī ad Nāṭyaśāstra 4.261cd–269abAppendix: Kāvyānuśāsana of Hemacandra (pp. 445–449)BibliographyIndex