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Kissing the mask : beauty, understatement, and femininity in Japanese Noh theater : with some thoughts on muses (especially Helga Testorf), transgender women, kabuki goddesses, porn queens, poets, housewives, makeup artists, geishas, valkyries, and Venus figurines

Title: Kissing the mask : beauty, understatement, and femininity in Japanese Noh theater : with some thoughts on muses (especially Helga Testorf), transgender women, kabuki goddesses, porn queens, poets, housewives, makeup artists, geishas, valkyries, and Venus figurines / William T. Vollmann.
Author: Vollmann, William T.
Publication: New York : Ecco, c2010.

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Description

xxi, 504 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Explores the enigma surrounding Noh theater and the traditions that have made it intrinsic to Japanese culture for centuries and extracts the secrets of staged femininity and the mystery of perceived and expressed beauty.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 486-500).

Call Number

MWEL (Japan) 11-1594

ISBN

9780061228483
0061228486

OCLC

419855470

Author

Vollmann, William T.

Title

Kissing the mask : beauty, understatement, and femininity in Japanese Noh theater : with some thoughts on muses (especially Helga Testorf), transgender women, kabuki goddesses, porn queens, poets, housewives, makeup artists, geishas, valkyries, and Venus figurines / William T. Vollmann.

Imprint

New York : Ecco, c2010.

Edition

1st ed.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 486-500).

Research Call Number

MWEL (Japan) 11-1594

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