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The Karagiozis, Greek shadow puppet theater performance derived from a sixteenth century Turkish model, is an interactive performative event rather than a static text treated in isolation from its extended environmental and immediate performative contexts and thus requires critical shifts in the research approach one uses. A method of collating data that could handle the differences of multiple variants became necessary. Such a method had to effectively test the transformational growth of the form given the influence of irrational forces, had to organize a large number of variables as well as a substantial body of texts, and had to operate at the smallest level to insure that findings were confirmed or disconfirmed in the most exhaustive and comprehensive way possible. That method was to be found in information management systems, specifically Asksam and Notebook II.
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Kostas Myrsiades is Professor of Comparative Literature and English and chairperson of the Department of English at West Chester University. His publications include six books and numerous articles of criticism and translations of Greek poetry. His latest book,Yannis Ritsos: Selected Poems, 1938–1988 will be published this summer by Boa Editions. He is presently working on a book for the Modern Language Association on Nota Bene.
Linda Suny Myrsiades has written numerous articles on Karagiozis Greek shadow theater in the U.S.A. and abroad. In 1988 New England University Press published her book.The Karagiozis Heroic Performance in Greek Shadow Theater (with Kostas Myrsiades). She and her husband are now completing a companion volume.The Karagiozis Oral Comic Performance.
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Myrsiades, K., Myrsiades, L.S. Using information management systems to study modern Greek folklore. Comput Hum 23, 365–373 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02176642
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