The Rite of Seeing:Essays on Kutiyattam/ (Record no. 633629)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9789355720375
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 793.32
Item number SHU/R
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Shulman,David
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Rite of Seeing:Essays on Kutiyattam/
Statement of responsibility, etc by David Shulman
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Delhi:
Name of publisher Primus Books,
Year of publication 2022.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xiv,208p.
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note List of Plates--<br/>Acknowledgements --<br/>Introduction--<br/>1. Play of a Drunkard: Dance, Dancer, and Spectator--<br/>2. The Aśoka Garden: What is Love?--<br/>3. Entering the Fire: More about Wonder--<br/>4. The Serpent’s Ecstasy: Dense Seeing--<br/>5. The War at the Gate: What is Time?--<br/>6. The Saugandhika Flower: Another Knowing--<br/>Conclusion --<br/>Bibliography --<br/>Index--
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Kūṭiyāṭṭam, the only surviving live Sanskrit theatre in the world, was defined by UNESCO as ‘a masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity’. Full performances—almost always a single act taken from a multi-act Sanskrit play—range from 12 to 150 hours (in daily or nightly segments of several hours each) and display an aesthetic brilliance and dizzying complexity that are almost beyond description. Each such act constitutes an artistic whole with its own conceptual and thematic unity. The Rite of Seeing reflects the work of the Hebrew University Kūṭiyāṭṭam team and of our colleagues from Tuebingen, Paris, Groningen, and elsewhere, over many years of annual pilgrimages to Kerala to watch and study this art in action
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Summary, etc It offers interpretations of seven classical performances in the light of the actors’ traditional handbooks (Āṭṭaprakāram), the Sanskrit base text, and the artists’ oral commentary that emerged naturally in the course of many days of attentive viewing. The essays are accompanied by links to extended performance moments, so that readers can see with their own eyes something of what we have seen in Mūḻikkuḷam and Kiḷḷimaṅgalam. Interpretative essays of this kind, although plentiful in studies of Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Chekhov, have never been attempted for Kūṭiyāṭṭam. The book is thus meant to introduce Kūṭiyāṭṭam to new audiences and to offer pathways for beginning to explore the riches of this unique and still vital tradition.
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        Study Centre Alappuzha, University of Kerala Study Centre Alappuzha, University of Kerala 10/03/2022 1295.00 793.32 SHU/R USCA6019 10/03/2022 Book