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Author Ganser, Elisa, author

Title Theatre and its other : Abhinavagupta on dance and dramatic acting / by Elisa Ganser
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021

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Series Gonda indological studies, 1382-3442 ; 23
Contents Preface -- 0 Introduction -- 0.1 A Forgotten Chapter in the History of Indian Aesthetics -- 0.2 Recovering Dance through Texts: A Note on Method -- 1 Nāṭyaśāstra and Abhinavabhāratī : Trends and Open Questions -- 1.1 Editorial History and Textual Reception -- 1.2 Archiving Performance: Texts and Images -- 1.3 The Nāṭyaśāstra and the Place of Dance in It -- 1.4 The Abhinavabhāratī : A Medieval Document on Performance -- Part 1 Practice and Aesthetics of Indian Dance -- 2 Formalizing Dance, Codifying Performance -- 2.1 Nāṭya , nṛtta , and nṛtya between Movement and Mimesis -- 2.2 Dance as Technique: aṅgahāra , karaṇa , recaka -- 2.3 Between Gender and Genre: tāṇḍava , sukumāra , lāsya -- 2.4 Expanding the Idea of nṛtta -- 2.5 Tradition, Creativity, and Artistry: A Śaiva Perspective -- 3 The Aesthetics of Dance -- 3.1 Dance within Theatre, Dance without Theatre -- 3.2 Enacting Emotions: A vademecum for the Actor -- 3.3 Communication without Words -- 3.4 Dance, Beauty, and the Fabrication of Dramatic Fiction -- 3.5 Reshaping the Idea of abhinaya in Dance -- Part 2 Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of Abhinavabhāratī ad Nāṭyaśāstra 4.261cd-269ab -- 4 Introduction to the Edition -- 4.1 General Remarks on the Transmission of the Abhinavabhāratī -- 4.2 Genealogy of the Present Text: The Sources -- 4.3 A Note on the Sanskrit Text and Translation -- 4.4 Symbols and Abbreviations in the Apparatus -- Analysis of ABh ad NŚ 4.261cd-269ab -- Edition and Translation: Abhinavabhāratī ad Nāṭyaśāstra 4.261cd-269ab -- Appendix: Kāvyānuśāsana of Hemacandra (pp. 445-449) -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English and Sanskrit
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Subject Bharata Muni. Nāṭyaśāstra.
Abhinavagupta, Rājānaka. Abhinavabhāratī
SUBJECT Nāṭyaśāstra (Bharata Muni) fast (OCoLC)fst01359436
Subject Sanskrit drama -- History and criticism
Theater -- India.
Aesthetics, Indic.
PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General
Aesthetics, Indic.
Sanskrit drama.
Theater.
India.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Bharata Muni. Nāṭyaśāstra.
Bharata Muni. Nāṭyaśāstra. English.
Abhinavagupta, Rājānaka. Abhinavabhāratī
Abhinavagupta, Rājānaka. Abhinavabhāratī. English
LC no. 2021029804
ISBN 9789004467057
900446705X