Natyasastra and the Body in Performance

Essays on Indian Theories of Dance and Drama

By Sreenath Nair

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Publish Date

2015

Publisher

McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers

Language

eng

Pages

260

Description:

"The Natyasastra is an extensive documentation of terminologies, concepts and methodologies. The aesthetic theory of rasa is central to the Natyasastra, a term widely used in recent debates in aesthetics, philosophy, neuroscience and performance practice. This volume presents 14 scholarly essays exploring the Natyasastra from the multiple perspectives of Indian performance studies"--

subjects: Religion and culture, Performing arts, Art, themes, motives, etc., Arts, india, Theater, Sanskrit drama, History and criticism, Indic Aesthetics, Nāṭyaśāstra (Bharata Muni)