Author: Christopher B. Balme
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: colonial, drama, post, syncretism, stage, theatrical, decolonizing
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1999-05-20
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 0198184441
ISBN-13: 9780198184447

Decolonizing the Stage is a major study devoted to post-colonial drama and theater. It examines the way dramatists and directors from various countries and societies have attempted to fuse the performance idioms of their indigenous traditions with the Western dramatic form. The study provides a theoretically sophisticated, cross-cultural comparative approach to a wide number of writers, regions, and theater movements, ranging from Maori, Aboriginal, and native American theater to Township theater in South Africa.

Authors:David Chung, Kang-Nam Oh,
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: series, korean, studies, korea, beginnings, religious, context, christian, syncretism
Number of Pages: 263
Published: 2001-05
List price: $60.50
ISBN-10: 0791449416
ISBN-13: 9780791449417

Argues that a syncretic worldview encouraged the remarkable growth of Christianity in Korea.

Authors:Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown, Greville G. Corbett,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: cambridge, studies, linguistics, syncretism, study, morphology, interface, syntax
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-10-31
List price: $116.00
ISBN-10: 0521821819
ISBN-13: 9780521821810

Syncretism--where a single form serves two or more morphosyntactic functions--is a persistent problem at the syntax-morphology interface. It results from a ’mismatch’, whereby the syntax of a language makes a particular distinction, but the morphology does not. This pioneering book provides the first full-length study of inflectional syncretism, presenting a typology of its occurrence across a wide range of languages. It will be welcomed by linguists interested in the relation between words and the larger units of which they are a part.