Chinese Adaptations of Brecht [electronic resource] : Appropriation and Intertextuality / by Wei Zhang.

Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9783030377786
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
EK/4748
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2020.
Yayın Bilgisi
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XV, 200 p. 6 illus. online resource.
Dizi
Chinese Literature and Culture in the World, 2945-7262
İçindekiler Notu
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: One Director, Three Takes: Chen Yong’s Reinterpretations of Life of Galileo, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and The Threepenny Opera -- Chapter 3 Good Persons of Sichuan, Jiangnan, and Beijing: Brecht’s The Good Person of Szechwan and Chinese Xiqu Adaptations -- Chapter 4: Concentric Circles: Two Chuanju Reinterpretations of The Caucasian Chalk Circle as The Chalk Circle -- Chapter 5: Modernity, Chinese Culture, and Intertextuality: Bertolt Brecht’s Turandot and Wei Minglun’s Chuanju Play Chinese Princess Dulanduo -- Chapter 6: Brecht and Mao Zedong: Two Sides of “The Other Side” and “Twice Removed” Vision of “Snow” -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.
Özet, vb.
This book examines the two-way impacts between Brecht and Chinese culture and drama/theatre, focusing on Chinese theatrical productions since the end of the Cultural Revolution all the way to the first decades of the twenty-first century. Wei Zhang considers how Brecht’s plays have been adapted/appropriated by Chinese theatre artists to speak to the sociopolitical, economic, and cultural developments in China and how such endeavors reflect and result from dynamic interactions between Chinese philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics, especially as embodied in traditional xiqu and the Brechtian concepts of estrangement (Verfremdungseffekt) and political theatre. In examining these Brecht adaptations, Zhang offers an interdisciplinary study that contributes to the fields of comparative drama/theatre studies, intercultural studies, and performance studies.
Konu
Comparative literature.
Oriental literature.
European literature.
Theater.
Ethnology __ Asia.
Culture.
Comparative Literature.
Asian Literature.
European Literature.
Global and International Theatre and Performance.
Asian Culture.