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Pulling the Siamese Dragon
Timothy D. Hoare
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Description for Pulling the Siamese Dragon
Hardback. Presenting the masked theatre of Thailand as an ideal model of a performance structured and expressive human activity, this book suggests that performance, as a genre of aesthetic and religious import, may be further regarded as a significant theological agenda for Christian ritual praxis. Num Pages: 192 pages, 27 photographs, appendix, index. BIC Classification: 1FMT; AN; HRCM; HRCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
The masked theater of Thailand (Khon) is a classical performance art that ritually creates a realm of illusion by generating an ambiguous tension among its physical elements of self, mask and gesture, space and silence. Pulling the Siamese Dragon presents Khon as an ideal model of performance as a structured and expressive human activity, and suggests that performance, as a genre of aesthetic and religious import, may be further regarded as a significant theological agenda for Christian ritual praxis. This approach to performance has profound implications for the Western theological consciousness which generally regards tension and ambiguity as duplicates that ... Read more
The masked theater of Thailand (Khon) is a classical performance art that ritually creates a realm of illusion by generating an ambiguous tension among its physical elements of self, mask and gesture, space and silence. Pulling the Siamese Dragon presents Khon as an ideal model of performance as a structured and expressive human activity, and suggests that performance, as a genre of aesthetic and religious import, may be further regarded as a significant theological agenda for Christian ritual praxis. This approach to performance has profound implications for the Western theological consciousness which generally regards tension and ambiguity as duplicates that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761804154
SKU
V9780761804154
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About Timothy D. Hoare
Timothy D. Hoare is Assistant Professor of Religion and Theatre at Missouri Valley College in Marshall, Missouri.
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