Poetics of Displacement: Twentieth -Century Chinese -Western Intercultural Theatre

260 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001.The first chapter of Part Two deals with the Chinese intercultural displacement of Western realism and avant-garde in the first decades of the twentieth century. Chapter Six is concerned with the Chinese displacement of Stanislawsky to their traditional theatre. Chapter Seven demonstrates the ways Brecht and Meyerhold were displaced in contemporary Chinese theatre. Chapter Eight is a case study of "mutual displacement" as exemplified in some Shakespearean adaptations in Chinese traditional theatrical forms, demonstrating how both Shakespeare and the Chinese theatre are displaced in such intercultural adaptations.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD