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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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Details
- 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.
- Subjects
- 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