Impression: Eastern drama narrative

Author: Meng Zhaoqi
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: This book primarily studies the narrative issues of Eastern theater. We have found that narrative is not just a literary technique; narrative actually exists within the ontology of all narrative literature. The narratology of theatrical art places more emphasis on the narrative aspect during the performance process rather than the narrative aspect during the storytelling process. From the perspectives of text, performance, and stage, Eastern theater narrative includes textual narrative, performance narrative, and stage narrative. According to the research object of Eastern theater narratology, the book is divided into the "East Asian Chapter," "Southeast Asian Chapter," "South Asian Chapter," and "West and North African Chapter." In the study of East Asian theater narrative, the author attempts to find commonalities in the classical theater of China, Japan, and Korea. The focus of Southeast Asian theater narrative is on narrative structure, narrative themes, and narrative functions. Regarding South Asian theater, we focus on exploring the evolution of Indian theater narrative from the classical era to the modern era, particularly the narrative dialogue between Chinese and Indian classical theater. We also attempt to explore the shortcomings in the narrative characteristics of Western and North African theater. Based on these studies, we try to concretize the abstract "narrative" of Eastern theater as an independent research object, and on this basis, strive to outline the theoretical landscape of Eastern theater narratology.