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Author: Mandakranta Bose
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780792313250
DOWNLOAD EBOOK1. Introduction.- 2. The Literature of Dance.- 3. The N?tya stra and the Concept of Dance.- 4. L?sya: A Dramatic Art.- 5. Nrtya and Upar?paka.- 6. Bandha and Anibandha.- 7. The De Tradition.- 8. Conclusion.
Author: Mandakranta Bose
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9401135940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most comprehensive view of the evolution of dancing in India is one that is derived from Sanskrit textual sources. These texts are the basic material that students of the dance in India must examine in order to uncover its past. Since the rebirth of informed interest in dancing in early twentieth century, its antiquity has been acknowledged but precisely what the art was in antiquity remains unclear. Discovering the oldest forms of dancing in India requires, as do other historical quests, a reconstruction of the past and, again as in other historical investigations, the primary sources of knowledge are records from the past. In this case the records are treatises and manuals in Sanskrit that discuss and describe dancing. These are the sources that the present work sets out to mine. These texts taken collectively are more than records of a particular state of the art. They testify to the growth of the theory and practice of the art and thus establish it as an evolving rather than a fixed art form that changed as much in response to its own expanding aesthetic boundaries as to parallel or complementary forms of dance, drama and music that impinged upon it as India's social and political situation changed. When we place the Sanskrit treatises in chronological sequence it becomes clear that the understanding of the art has changed through time, in its infancy as well as in maturer periods.
Author: Scott R. Garrels
Publisher: MSU Press
Published: 2011-10-31
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 1609172388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis exciting compendium brings together, for the first time, some of the foremost scholars of René Girard’s mimetic theory, with leading imitation researchers from the cognitive, developmental, and neuro sciences. These chapters explore some of the major discoveries and developments concerning the foundational, yet previously overlooked, role of imitation in human life, revealing the unique theoretical links that can now be made from the neural basis of social interaction to the structure and evolution of human culture and religion. Together, mimetic scholars and imitation researchers are on the cutting edge of some of the most important breakthroughs in understanding the distinctive human capacity for both incredible acts of empathy and compassion as well as mass antipathy and violence. As a result, this interdisciplinary volume promises to help shed light on some of the most pressing and complex questions of our contemporary world.
Author: Erich Auerbach
Publisher:
Published: 1991
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ISBN-13: 9780691012698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen D. Dowden
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-09-26
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 3030531341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a bold new view of the way in which modernist fiction, painting, music, and poetry are interlinked. Dowden shows that modernism, contrary to a longstanding view, did not turn away from mimesis. Rather, modernism operates according to a deepened understanding of what mimesis is and how it works, which in turn occasions a fresh look at other related dimensions of the modernist achievement. Modernism is neither “difficult” nor elitist. Instead, it trends toward simplicity, directness, and common culture. Dowden argues that naïveté rather than highbrow sophistication was for the modernists a key artistic principle. He demonstrates that modernism, far from glorifying subjective creativity, directs itself toward healing the split between subject and object. Mimesis closes this gap by resolving representation into play and festivity.
Author: Arne Melberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-01-26
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780521458566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMimesis, with its connecting concepts of imitation, simile, and similarity, has been cited since classical times in the exploration of the relationship between art and reality. In this major study Arne Melberg discusses the theory and history of mimesis through narratological analysis of texts by Plato, Cervantes, Rousseau, and Kierkegaard. Moving away from the relatively straightforward 'representation of reality' ideas in Erich Auerbach's Mimesis (1946), Melberg brings the concept of mimesis into the context of the literary theories of de Man and others. Theories of Mimesis is a strenuously argued account of language and time, charting the movement of mimesis from the Platonic philosophy of similarity to modern ideas of difference.
Author: Kader Konuk
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010-09-21
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0804775753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEast West Mimesis follows the plight of German-Jewish humanists who escaped Nazi persecution by seeking exile in a Muslim-dominated society. Kader Konuk asks why philologists like Erich Auerbach found humanism at home in Istanbul at the very moment it was banished from Europe. She challenges the notion of exile as synonymous with intellectual isolation and shows the reciprocal effects of German émigrés on Turkey's humanist reform movement. By making literary critical concepts productive for our understanding of Turkish cultural history, the book provides a new approach to the study of East-West relations. Central to the book is Erich Auerbach's Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, written in Istanbul after he fled Germany in 1936. Konuk draws on some of Auerbach's key concepts—figura as a way of conceptualizing history and mimesis as a means of representing reality—to show how Istanbul shaped Mimesis and to understand Turkey's humanist reform movement as a type of cultural mimesis.
Author: Verdenius
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-08-01
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 900432013X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael T. Taussig
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780415906876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Laleen Jayamanne
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2001-09-26
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780253214751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJayamanne brings together her discussions of Australian films, Sri Lankan films, European art films, silent film comedy, contemporary American films and her own films.
