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Author:   Elisa Ganser
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   23
Weight:   0.834kg
ISBN:  

9789004449817

ISBN 10:   9004449817
Pages:   414
Publication Date:   22 February 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of 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

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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).

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