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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464758003321

Autore

Wang-Ngai Siu

Titolo

Chinese opera : the actor's craft / / Siu Wang-Ngai with Peter Lovrick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hong Kong : , : Hong Kong University Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

988-8268-25-2

988-8268-26-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Disciplina

782.10951

Soggetti

Operas, Chinese - History and criticism

Acting in opera

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- How Chinese theatre solves theatrical problems -- Using stage movement -- Using props -- Using weapons and skills for stage fighting -- Using costumes -- Using special skills -- A final word--from the photographer and the writer -- Glossary -- Appendix I. English guide to the photographs -- Appendix II. Chinese guide to the photographs -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Chinese opera embraces over 360 different styles of theatre that make one of the richest performance arts in the world. It combines music, speech, poetry, mime, acrobatics, stage fighting, vivid face-painting and exquisite costumes. First experiences of Chinese opera can be baffling because its vocabulary of stagecraft is familiar only to the seasoned aficionado. Chinese Opera: The Actor's Craft makes the experience more accessible for everyone. This book uses breath-taking images of Chinese opera in performance by Hong Kong photographer Siu Wang-Ngai to illustrate and explain Chinese opera stage technique. The book explores costumes, gestures, mime, acrobatics, props and stage techniques. Each explanation is accompanied by an example of its use in an opera and is illustrated by in-performance photographs. Chinese Opera: The Actor's Craft provides the reader with a basic grammar for understanding uniquely Chinese solutions to staging



drama.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791786303321

Autore

Sjølyst-Jackson Peter

Titolo

Troubling legacies : migration, modernism, and fascism in the case of Knut Hamsun / / Peter Sjølyst-Jackson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2011

ISBN

1-4725-4329-7

1-283-01583-8

9786613015839

1-4411-7582-2

Edizione

[Paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Collana

Continuum literary studies

Classificazione

18.16

Disciplina

839.8236

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-180) and index.

Nota di contenuto

'Kristiania, that strange city': location and dislocation in Hunger -- Aristocratic radicalism: Nietzsche, Brandes and Strindberg -- Mysteries and Pan : sex, class and laughter -- Geographies of the unhomelike: in wonderland and the rhetoric of national rootedness -- Double monument: Growth of the soil, after the Nobel Prize and Nazism -- Reading Hamsun, reading Nazism -- Treacherous testimony: On overgrown paths and the rhetoric of deafness.

Sommario/riassunto

"Troubling Legacies analyses the heterogeneous and conflicted legacies of the enigmatic European writer, Hamsun. Moving through different phases of his life, this study emphasises the dislocated nature of Hamsun's works and the diverse and conflicting responses his fiction elicited from such figures as Franz Kafka, Katherine Mansfield, Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger. Close readings of the major novels Hunger, Mysteries, Pan and Growth of the Soil are presented alongside lesser known writings, including his early polemic on America, his turn-of-the-century travelogue through Russia, his fascist polemics of the 1930s and 40s, and his controversial post-war testimony, On



Overgrown Paths. Troubling Legacies links past debates with contemporary literary theory and deconstruction in a way that contributes to critical thinking about political responsibility."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910321456903321

Autore

Linné, Karl af

Titolo

Caroli C. a Linné ... Plantarum rariorum horti Upsaliensis fasciculus primus sistens descriptiones et figuras plantarum minus cognitarum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lipsiae, : impensis Siegfried Lebrecht Crvsii, 1767

Descrizione fisica

[4], 20 p., X c. di tav. : ill. ; fol.

Locazione

DBV

Collocazione

e I 17 (2

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia