Theatre and its other : Abhinavagupta on dance and dramatic acting
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Theatre and its other : Abhinavagupta on dance and dramatic acting
（Gonda Indological studies, v. 23）
Brill, c2022
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English and Sanskrit text, partially translated from the Sanskrit
"Critical edition and annotated translation of Abhinavabhāratī ad Nāṭyaśāstra 4.261cd–269ab": p. [213]-377
"The Abhinavabhāratī, Abhinavagupta's eleventh-century commentary on Bharata's Nāṭyaśāstra"--p. [1]
Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-405) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 Natyasastra, 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.
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 Natyasastra and Abhinavabharati: Trends and Open Questions
1.1 Editorial History and Textual Reception
1.2 Archiving Performance: Texts and Images
1.3 The Natyasastra and the Place of Dance in It
1.4 The Abhinavabharati: A Medieval Document on Performance
Part 1 Practice and Aesthetics of Indian Dance
2 Formalizing Dance, Codifying Performance
2.1 Natya, nrtta, and nrtya between Movement and Mimesis
2.2 Dance as Technique: angahara, karana, recaka
2.3 Between Gender and Genre: tandava, sukumara, lasya
2.4 Expanding the Idea of nrtta
2.5 Tradition, Creativity, and Artistry: A Saiva 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 Abhinavabharati ad Natyasastra 4.261cd-269ab
4 Introduction to the Edition
4.1 General Remarks on the Transmission of the Abhinavabharati
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 NS 4.261cd-269ab
Edition and Translation: Abhinavabharati ad Natyasastra 4.261cd-269ab
Appendix: Kavyanusasana of Hemacandra (pp. 445-449)
Bibliography
Index
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