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portada Avatars of Vengeance: Japanese Drama and the Soga Literary Tradition (Volume 13) (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies)
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Physical Book
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Language
English
Pages
296
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9780939512690
Edition No.
1

Avatars of Vengeance: Japanese Drama and the Soga Literary Tradition (Volume 13) (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies)

Laurence Kominz (Author) · U Of M Center For Japanese Studies · Hardcover

Avatars of Vengeance: Japanese Drama and the Soga Literary Tradition (Volume 13) (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies) - Laurence Kominz

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Synopsis "Avatars of Vengeance: Japanese Drama and the Soga Literary Tradition (Volume 13) (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies)"

Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies No. 13 For six centuries the Soga vendetta was Japan's archetypal revenge tragedy, and the Soga brothers epitomized heroic avengers, dedicated yet doomed. In Avatars of Vengeance Laurence Kominz explores the timeless appeal that the Soga story has exerted on the Japanese and describes the processes that took the brothers through successive incarnations in literature. Beginning as loyal samurai, they changed into Shinto gods, then exemplars of filial virtue, suave dandies, superhuman swashbucklers, sensitive lovers, and back into gods again. The heroines of the story also underwent changes, from exemplars of religious devotion in the medieval, oral tale to icons of romantic love and models of secular virtue in later versions. The most startling transformations in the Soga story and its characters took place on stage as theater changed and developed, fueled by the tastes of succeeding generations of audiences and new methods of stage presentation, by advances in performers' training and technique, and by changing religious attitudes toward the Soga deities. Kominz explains why plays about the Soga revenge so often marked new directions in dramaturgy and play writing. His study demonstrates that no dramatic theme better illuminates the dynamics of creativity in traditional Japanese theater than the Soga vendetta.

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