Space, Time and Ways of Seeing: The Performance Culture of Kutiyattam

by Mundoli Narayanan

Book Overview

This volume explores the constitutive role played by space in the performance of Kutiyattam. The only surviving form of Sanskrit theatre, Kutiyattam is distinctive in terms of its performance conventions and its unique culture of extensive elaboration and interpretation. Drawing upon the concepts of phenomenology on the processes of perception, particularly on the works of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, it analyses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032000376
• ISBN13: 9781032000374
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall
• Length: 300 Pages