{"product_id":"burying-the-beloved-marriage-realism-and-reform-in-modern-iran-hardcover","title":"Burying the Beloved: Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSteven T. Brown\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough an extended reading of the noh play \u003ci\u003eAoi ne Ue\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as briefer examinations of several other plays, this book sheds new light on the circulation of power and desire in the middle and late medieval periods in Japan. It argues that these plays constituted an active force in the theater of the medieval cultural imaginary by engaging specific sociopolitical issues and problems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough an extended reading of the noh play Aoi ne Ue, as well as briefer examinations of several other plays, Theatricalities of Power sheds new light on the circulation of power and desire in the middle and late medieval periods in Japan. The author argues that, rather than simply mirroring the sociopolitical contexts in which they were performed, these plays constituted an active, productive force in the theater of the medieval cultural imaginary by engaging specific sociopolitical issues and problems.\u003cbr\u003eNeither reducing noh to its theatrical conventions nor abstracting its style and poetics from its performativity, the book reads noh differently, opening the performance text to its historically specific contexts. It aims not merely to recount the history of noh, but to investigate the history in noh, to explore \"the indecision as to the limit\" between the performance text of noh and its other.\u003cbr\u003eThe author approaches noh as a site of conflict framed by the mechanisms of patronage within which poetic, religious, political, and economic discourses are brought together in complex and innovative ways. He brings to the fore the \"micropolitics of culture\" operative in noh by ferreting out the power relations and tensions at play between noh texts and their institutions of support and by opening noh to extradramatic linkages with contemporaneous figurations of authority, change in legal codes, and sexual politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteven T. Brown is Associate Professor of Japanese Medieval Literature, Popular Culture, and Critical Theory at the University of Oregon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 9.38 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 02, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42131177635975,"sku":"9780804740708","price":128.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/76273cf1fc86a109a24c7cf122d416af.webp?v=1732616928","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/burying-the-beloved-marriage-realism-and-reform-in-modern-iran-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}