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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures : Asian Studies

Postgraduate Course: Japanese Performing Arts I: Traditional Theatre and Contemporary Performance (ASST11054)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThe course offers a critical introduction to traditional Japanese theatre in its historical, cultural and performative context.

Detailed attention will be paid to noh, kabuki and bunraku, all of which combine acting, music and dance and continue to be performed regularly in contemporary Japan.

The relationship between performance and text, and the concept of "performance as text," will be central to the course content, and will be presented through analysis of audio-visual performance recordings as well as the scripts of selected plays.

Writings on noh, bunraku and kabuki that provide researchers with theoretical background to training and performance, playwriting and appreciation of these traditional forms will also introduced and discussed, particularly from the perspective of modern anglophone scholarship.

Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
Students who have completed the course successfully will be able to:
Apply a general knowledge of the historical and cultural background to the performing arts in Japan

Understand critically, appreciate and analyse contemporary performances of noh, bunraku and kabuki

Describe, explain and apply to their independent research important writings on noh, bunraku and kabuki
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Special Arrangements PG version.
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Helen Parker
Tel: (0131 6)50 4230
Email: Helen.Parker@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Sarah Harvey
Tel: (0131 6)51 1822
Email: Sarah.Harvey@ed.ac.uk
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