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On Japanese drama by Anna A. Hlaváčová is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
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of this Slovak book on Noh drama, 1 demonstrates an expertise in both Japanese sources and western Japanese scholarship on the topic. Part of this is in fact the result of fieldwork conducted in Japan. Rumánek manages his sensational hypotheses soberly and the Slovak lexical items he proposes as translations of Japanese terms are convincingly explained and substantiated. His comparisons and approximations are made on a large scale, making his style reader-friendly. I particularly appreciate this because I, myself, when working on my monograph on African theatre, struggled with a similar problem how to achieve scientific clarity in an environment where there is almost no context to which one can refer. In such cases, the author must first provide a considerable amount of background, before moving on to his/her own theoretical musings. In this sense, a researcher publishing in English or French is in a far easier situation than Ivan Rumánek, who publishes in Slovak. In this book Noh does not appear in a reduced textual version but as a living theatre tradition. However, since Noh is still rarely seen as a stage phenomenon in Central Europe, some passages of the book may appear rather
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- Author
- Anna A. Hlaváčová
- Publisher
- Versita; De Gruyter Open Sp. z o.o. ; Walter de Gruyter GmbH (ISSN 1210-3055)
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences