Yeats And The Noh: Types Of Japanese Beauty And Their Reflection In Yeats's Plays
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Book: Good
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Pages: Tanning and foxing
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At the crossroads of two ancient theatrical traditions stands a question that has long intrigued scholars: what did W.B. Yeats find in the Japanese Noh theatre that so profoundly shaped his dramatic vision? Yeats and the Noh: Types of Japanese Beauty and Their Reflection in Yeats's Plays by Hiro Ishibashi presents a meticulous and revelatory study of this East-West artistic exchange, arguing that Yeats's encounter with Noh was not a passing influence but a transformative force that restructured the very architecture of his plays. Ishibashi identifies and chronicles the specific aesthetic principles — from symbolic movement and masked performance to the compression of time and spirit — that Yeats absorbed, adapted, and transmuted into a distinctly Irish modernist drama. Edited by Anthony Kerrigan and published as Volume VI of the prestigious Dolmen Press Yeats Centenary Papers in 1965, this scholarly work occupies a vital place in twentieth-century comparative literary studies. Ishibashi writes with the precision of an academic and the sensitivity of a cultural interpreter, illuminating the philosophical and aesthetic bridges between Zen-inflected Japanese aesthetics and the mystical symbolism of the Irish Revival. For anyone seeking to understand the hidden architecture beneath Yeats's late plays, this rare volume raises a tantalising question: how much of what we call Irish in Yeats was, in truth, Japanese?
Author: Hiro Ishibashi
Format: Paperback
Published: 1966
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the crossroads of two ancient theatrical traditions stands a question that has long intrigued scholars: what did W.B. Yeats find in the Japanese Noh theatre that so profoundly shaped his dramatic vision? Yeats and the Noh: Types of Japanese Beauty and Their Reflection in Yeats's Plays by Hiro Ishibashi presents a meticulous and revelatory study of this East-West artistic exchange, arguing that Yeats's encounter with Noh was not a passing influence but a transformative force that restructured the very architecture of his plays. Ishibashi identifies and chronicles the specific aesthetic principles — from symbolic movement and masked performance to the compression of time and spirit — that Yeats absorbed, adapted, and transmuted into a distinctly Irish modernist drama. Edited by Anthony Kerrigan and published as Volume VI of the prestigious Dolmen Press Yeats Centenary Papers in 1965, this scholarly work occupies a vital place in twentieth-century comparative literary studies. Ishibashi writes with the precision of an academic and the sensitivity of a cultural interpreter, illuminating the philosophical and aesthetic bridges between Zen-inflected Japanese aesthetics and the mystical symbolism of the Irish Revival. For anyone seeking to understand the hidden architecture beneath Yeats's late plays, this rare volume raises a tantalising question: how much of what we call Irish in Yeats was, in truth, Japanese?