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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 956

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Author: Vāris̲ Shāh
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Category : Panjabi poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Author: Library of Congress
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Languages : en
Pages : 632

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Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 624

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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 770

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Author: Kathryn Hansen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520910885
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 577

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The nautanki performances of northern India entertain their audiences with often ribald and profane stories. Rooted in the peasant society of pre-modern India, this theater vibrates with lively dancing, pulsating drumbeats, and full-throated singing. In Grounds for Play, Kathryn Hansen draws on field research to describe the different elements of nautanki performance: music, dance, poetry, popular story lines, and written texts. She traces the social history of the form and explores the play of meanings within nautanki narratives, focusing on the ways important social issues such as political authority, community identity, and gender differences are represented in these narratives. Unlike other styles of Indian theater, the nautanki does not draw on the pan-Indian religious epics such as the Ramayana or the Mahabharata for its subjects. Indeed, their storylines tend to center on the vicissitudes of stranded heroines in the throes of melodramatic romance. Whereas nautanki performers were once much in demand, live performances now are rare and nautanki increasingly reaches its audiences through electronic media—records, cassettes, films, television. In spite of this change, the theater form still functions as an effective conduit in the cultural flow that connects urban centers and the hinterland in an ongoing process of exchange.

Author: Mazisi Kunene
Publisher: Africana Pub.
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Author: Paul Zumthor
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816617258
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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In his comprehensive treatment, Zumthor (emeritus, U. of Montreal) discusses general issues concerning oral poetry, from primary to mechanized orality (including the setting of text to music); the forms of oral poetry; the epic in the West, Africa, and other parts of the globe; the oral poet's texte; performance in its manifold styles across the world; roles played in oral poetry; and oral ritual actions from archaic times to the present--Homer to Bob Dylan. Translated from the first French edition of 1983. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Mazisi Kunene
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Author: Mazisi Kunene
Publisher: East African Publishers
ISBN: 9789966468697
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Languages : en
Pages : 484

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